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1992 Southern League season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ133568132 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1992 Southern League was a Class AA baseball season played between April 9 and September 5. Ten teams played a 144-game schedule, with the top team in each division in each half of the season qualifying for the post-season.

The Greenville Braves won the Southern League championship, as they defeated the Chattanooga Lookouts in the playoffs.

Teams

Map of teams

Regular season

Summary

The Greenville Braves finished the season with the best record in the league for the second consecutive season.

Standings

League Leaders

Batting leaders

Pitching leaders

Playoffs

The Greenville Braves won their first Southern League championship, defeating the Chattanooga Lookouts in five games.

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This entry incorporates text from “1992 Southern League season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.