Valdosta Trojans

The Valdosta Trojans, based in Valdosta, Georgia, played in the Georgia-Florida League from 1939 through 1942. The Trojans were competitive throughout their pre-war run, reaching the finals in 1939 (losing to Albany in four games) and 1942 (losing to Waycross), and winning the 1941 first-round series before falling to Thomasville in the championship.

After the war the franchise returned under a series of affiliations: the Valdosta Dodgers from 1946 through 1952, the Browns in 1953, and the Tigers from 1954 through 1958. The Tigers era was the franchise's most successful, winning league championships in 1956, 1957, and 1958, three consecutive titles to close out the league's existence. Valdosta was one of only a handful of GFL cities to field teams in both the league's original 1939-42 run and its full postwar era through 1958. The Georgia-Florida League was a Class D circuit that ran, with a wartime interruption from 1943 through 1945, from 1935 through 1958, fielding teams primarily from south Georgia with occasional representation from Florida and Alabama.