Written by Kurt Schweizer and as was published in the
Miracle program:

"The year is all began, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
still called Fort Myers their Winter home, Terry Park
was still brand new and the Florida State League,
itself only seven years old operated at the Class D
level. The Palms posted a 69-51 record in the young
eight-team circut, which was good enough for a
third-place finish -- just five games behind the Tampa
Smokers and 8 1/2 games behind the first-placed
Sanford Celeryfeds. Since this was during the
"dead-ball" era, 4 home runs was all it was going to
take for the Palms outfielder Phil Grandio to tie the
leage lead on round trippers for the whole season.
After their debut campagn at Terry Park, the Palms
moved to Miami Field which was on the Southwest corner
of what is now the Orange Bowl Stadium pakring lot."

So, 1926 was the Palms first season and 1927 was their
first year as the "Miami Baseball Club." They
actually did not have a monkier at the time although
Miami Herald sports editor Jack Bell refered to them
as "Holloway's Hustlers" - a tribute to player-manager
Bill Holloway. Eventually they became official known
as the Miami Hustlers. They disbanded halfway through
1928 along with the rest of the league. They did not
return as an active franchise in the FSL until 1962,
at which time they reapeared under the name of the
Miami Marlins.

I hope that was helpful.

Dianna

--- brian m <beach64@...> wrote:
> At 09:43 PM 3/20/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >1927: When did the Ft Myers franchise move to Miam.
> What was the FM w-l
> >record at the time of the move and what was the
> reason for the move?
>
>
> Jerry
> I sent you the Ft Myers information last year
> sometime. If you want I can
> research again but I remember you were asking about
> the manager etc. From
> what I remember, the city had a vote to raise money
> to keep team and 8
> people showed up. The city pledged 1000 dollars and
> the team was looking
> for 10,000 if my memory is correct.
>
>
> Thanks
> Brian Mohr
>
>
>
>


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