Greenville Majors

The Greenville Majors minor league baseball team played in the East Texas League (1946), Big State League (1947–1950, 1953) and Sooner State League (1957).[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?city=Greenville&state=TX&country=US&empty=0 BR Minors page] It was based in the American city of Greenville, Texas. The club was affiliated with the New York Yankees, whom they defeated in a 1949 home game at Majors Stadium.{{Cite news|url=http://www.heraldbanner.com/community/majors-win-over-yankees-to-be-remembered/article_4621237a-0c5b-11e7-9288-ab20937c7896.html|title=Majors win over Yankees to be remembered|last=Museum|first=Courtesy Audie Murphy/American Cotton|work=Herald-Banner|access-date=2018-08-07|language=en}} Both the stadium and team were named after Lt. Truett Jay Majors, the first youth from Greenville to be killed in WW2.{{Cite news|url=https://texoso66.com/2015/05/25/lt-truett-jay-majors/|title=Lt. Truett Jay Majors|date=2015-05-25|work=Texas History Notebook|access-date=2018-08-07|language=en-US}}