Rockford Rox

Rockford, Illinois, has a long history of minor league baseball and one of the earliest and most consistent were the Rox. The Rockford Rox started play in the Tripe I League (also known as the Illinois - Indiana - Iowa League) in 1917. In the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s, teams existed in thousands of small towns across the United States, as Americans looked for recreational activities and entertainment in the era before TV was prominent. 

The Rox were a pretty solid team in the Triple I, finished second in the league standings in three of their six seasons. The team would not come back for the 1924 season. It would take about 20 years before another minor league team came to Rockford, and they would reprise the Rox moniker in the Central Association from 1947-49. Of course during this time there was a more famous team in Rockford, the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.