Iowa–South Dakota League

The Iowa–South Dakota League was a Minor League Baseball circuit that operated from 1902 to 1903 in the states of Iowa and South Dakota. The league was assigned the classification of D, the lowest level of professional baseball.

The 1903 president of the Iowa-South Dakota League was J. U. Sammism, a Le Mars, Iowa attorney.

The ISDL contained six teams in its inaugural season, eventually being reduced to three in the final season.

Cities represented

• Council Bluffs, Iowa: Council Bluffs Bluffers (1903)
• Flandreau, South Dakota: Flandreau Indians (1902)
• Le Mars, Iowa: Le Mars Blackbirds (1902–1903)
• Rock Rapids, Iowa: Rock Rapids Browns (1902)
• Sheldon, Iowa: Sheldon (1902)
• Sheldon, Iowa and Primghar, Iowa: Sheldon-Primghar Hyphens (1903)
• Sioux City, Iowa: Sioux City Cornhuskers 1902; Sioux City Soos (1903)
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Sioux Falls Canaries (1902–1903)

Championship titles

• 1902 – Sioux Falls Canaries
• 1903 – Le Mars Blackbirds

MLB alumni

• Bob Black (Cornhuskers/Sioux)
• George Bristow (Blackbirds)
• Jim Buchanan (Blackbirds)
• Fred Carisch (Canaries)
• Bill Carney (Indians)
• Homer Hillebrand (Indians)
• Pete Lister (Blackbirds)
• Bill Moriarty (Cornhuskers)
• Peaches O'Neill (Blackbirds)
• Branch Rickey (Blackbirds)
• Shag Shaughnessy (Soos)
• Dan Stearns (Indians)
• Babe Towne (Browns)

References/Sources

• Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles (2007). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Baseball America (Third edition). ISBN 978-1-93-239117-6
• Baseball Reference – Iowa-South Dakota League (D) Encyclopedia and History