With Vonachen at the helm, the Chiefs attendance at Meinen Field grew each season from 1984 to 1989, setting Midwest League attendance records in 1985, 19, with an all-time league mark of 196,000 fans in 1989, when Vonachen sold the team. Louis Cardinals from 1996–2004, rejoined the Cubs from 2005 through 2012, and returned to St. Then, the Chiefs became an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs from 1985–1995, moved to the St. Peoria Chiefs Īn innovator in promotions and marketing, Vonachen purchased the Peoria Suns in late 1983 and turned the Midwest League franchise into a 1980s powerhouse after renaming the team the Chiefs in 1984.
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This club disbanded after 1957, and Peoria was again without professional ball for the next 25 years until the Peoria Suns joined the Midwest League in 1983 as an affiliate club for the California Angels. The name Peoria Chiefs first appeared with a new franchise in the Three-I League in 1953. The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but made its mark not only in Peoria, but in baseball history as evidenced in the film A League of Their Own. Then, the Peoria Redwings joined the ladies league in 1946. This scenario led to the formation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943. During the time baseball was not present in Peoria, the United States entered World War II, which led to a shortage of professional baseball players throughout the entire country. After that, many Peoria teams played in several early leagues for the next five decades. In 1883, the Peoria Reds became one of the founding members of the Northwestern League, one of the first organized baseball circuits in the Midwest. One notable player who started his career with the Peoria Reds in 1878 was pitcher Charles Radbourn, who was among the first group of players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. Professional baseball in Peoria can be traced back to 1878, when William Morgan, an early minor league operator, formed an independent club named the Peoria Reds, which frequently beat National League clubs.
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