The Georgia State League was an American

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 Class D minor league

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 in professional baseball

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 that existed in 1906, 1914, 1920-21 and 1948-56. During its last incarnation, it existed alongside two nearby Class D circuits, the Georgia-Florida League

Georgia-Florida League

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 and the Georgia-Alabama League

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.

The version of the GSL began with six teams, but two clubs were forced to disband and a third to relocate before the league folded on July 9. The six-team league played a full schedule and crowned a champion, the Americus Muckalees. After World War I

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, the league — again featuring half a dozen member clubs — was revived for two full campaigns. In 1920, it was dominated by legendary minor league slugger Ike Boone

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, who batted

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 .403 and led the GSL in hits

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, runs

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 and home runs.

The Georgia State League revived in during the post-World War II

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 boom in minor league baseball. It expanded from six to eight teams in , and by had begun to attract working agreements or affiliations with Major League Baseball

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 farm systems. But as the low minors began to experience falling attendance during the 1950s, the GSL began to suffer. Its Statesboro Pilots club disbanded on July 1, , leaving the league with only five teams. The Georgia State League began and finished the season with a full complement of six teams, but the league did not answer the bell for 1957.

League champions

• 1914 Americus Muckalees
• 1920 Carrollton
• 1921 Lindale Pepperells
• 1948 Fitzgerald Pioneers

• 1949 Tifton Blue Sox
• 1950 Eastman Dodgers
• 1951 Douglas Trojans
• 1952 Vidalia Indians

• 1953 Hazlehurst-Baxley Cardinals
• 1954 Vidalia Indians
• 1955 Douglas Trojans and Sandersville Giants
• 1956 Douglas Reds

Member teams, 1948-56

• Baxley Red Sox
• Baxley-Hazlehurst Red Sox
• Douglas Rebels
• Douglas Reds
• Douglas Trojans
• Dublin Green Sox
• Dublin Irish

• Eastman Dodgers
• Fitzgerald Pioneers
• Hazlehurst-Baxley Cardinals
• Hazlehurst-Baxley Tigers
• Jesup Bees
• Sandersville Giants
• Sandersville Wacos

• Sparta Saints
• Statesboro Pilots
• Thomson Orioles
• Tifton Blue Sox
• Vidalia Indians
• Vidalia-Lyons Twins