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}}<!-- Infobox ends -->The '''Lincoln Links''' were an American [[minor league baseball]] franchise that represented [[Lincoln, Nebraska]], for 18 seasons over a 23-year period (1917–39) during the 20th century. They played in the Class A [[Western League (1900–1958)|Western League]] (1917; 1924–27), the Class D [[Nebraska State League]] (1922–23; 1928–36; 1938) and the Class D [[Western League (baseball, 1939–41)|Western League of 1939–41]] (1939).
Lincoln was first represented in [[professional baseball|organized baseball]] in 1886 as the ''Tree Planters'' in the reorganized [[Western League (original)|original Western League]]. Lincoln's 19th century teams played in various leagues between 1886 and 1895. In 1906, Lincoln joined the Class A Western League as the ''Ducklings'' (1906), ''Treeplanters'' (1907), ''Railsplitters'' (1908–13) and ''Tigers'' (1914–16).<ref name="nyha">[
Adopted in 1917, ''Links'' was the most widely used of the several nicknames associated with Lincoln teams during the 20th century. They played home games at Antelope Park (through 1917) and Landis Field (after 1922)<ref name="koty">[http://www.nebaseballhistory.com/landis.html Nebraska Baseball History web site]</ref> and won Nebraska State League championships in 1923 (under [[manager (baseball)|manager]] O.A. Beltzer), and 1934 (under Cy Lingle and [[Pug Griffin]]). Upon the introduction of the [[farm system]], the Links were linked with [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[St. Louis Cardinals]] (1933–34), [[Cincinnati Reds]] (1936, as the ''Red Links''), and [[St. Louis Browns]] (1938–39).<ref name="nyha"/>
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