San Antonio Missions
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The San Antonio Missions are a Minor League Baseball team of the Texas League and the Double-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres. They are located in San Antonio, Texas, and are named for the Spanish missions around which the city was founded. The Missions play their home games at Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, which opened in 1994 and seats over 6,200 people with a total capacity of over 9,000.
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Double-A (baseball)
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Double-A is the second-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States since 1946, below only Triple-A. There are currently 30 teams classified at the Double-A level, one for each team in Major League Baseball, organized into three leagues: the Eastern League, the Southern League, and the Texas League.
Jigger Statz, pictured in 1922, played in over 2700 Minor League Baseball games, all at the Double-A level in the Pacific Coast League between 1920 and 1942
In August 1985, after playing for several Double-A level teams, Jeff Hearron was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball