[5] For the 1936 season, the Athletics affiliated with the Fort Worth Panthers of the Texas League,[6] but in 1937 the Athletics changed owners and announced they would field an independent, unaffiliated team, saying that the Nashville and Fort Worth affiliations had not proved "satisfactory from a financial standpoint" and failed to deliver the talented players the team needed.
[9] A group of local citizens sought to raise funds to keep the team in Abbeville and in the league, but ultimately the franchise was lost.
[16] The Abbeville Athletics entered the playoffs in the number three slot, having ended the regular season 9.5 games behind the league-leading Houma Indians.
After beating the Natchez Giants in the first round of the Evangeline League playoffs, the Athletics lost four games in the final seven-game post-season series against the Houma Indians.
[18] Four Houma players — Bill Thomas, Lanny Pecou, Alvin W. Kaiser, and Paul Fugit — along with Abbeville catcher Don Vetorel were suspended for conspiring with "New Orleans bookies" to manipulate the playoff series to benefit themselves "and their gambling friends.