Memphis Fever Germs

Memphis Fever Germs
Minor league affiliations
Previous classesClass B
Previous leagues
Southern League
Major league affiliations
Previous teamsUnaffiliated
Team data
NameMemphis Fever Germs

The Memphis Fever Germs were a minor league baseball team from Memphis, Tennessee, that played in the Class B Southern League in 1893.[1]

The team was named after the Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878, which hit Memphis hard—about 17,000 Memphians were sickened, over 5,000 died, and about 25,000 fled the stricken city.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "1893 Memphis Fever Germs Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Yellow Fever: How Memphis Survived". Memphis Museums of Science and History. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
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