Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Record Makers of the South Atlantic League 1904-1961
Author: Record Makers of the South Atlantic League 1904-1960
Author: The South Atlantic League, 1904-1963
Author: Marshall D. WrightPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645492X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. (In 1963, with the collapse of the Southern Association, the league was promoted to Double-A status and renamed the Southern League.) Each chapter opens with a season summary and is followed by league standings, team records and rosters, and statistics for each player.
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball
Author: Lloyd JohnsonPublisher: Baseball America
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Road-Tripping the South Atlantic League
Author: Walter TriebelPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786498110
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This comprehensive visitor's guide to the teams of baseball's South Atlantic League lays out the methods needed to plan efficient, cost-effective and rewarding road trips to see home games at ballparks throughout the league. It provides carefully planned travel routes, including lists of interesting eateries and attractions (both baseball-related and otherwise) in or near each team's city. The text traces the history of the league, profiles each current team in detail, describes each ballpark and identifies players who have led the league in batting or pitching. Team profiles list more than 300 players who played with a South Atlantic League team and went on to have a successful major league career. Information about nearby teams outside the SAL is also included for travelers wanting to broaden their baseball road trip experience.
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
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Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.
The Southern League
Author: Bill O'NealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The World Almanac & Book of Facts
Author: It Happened in Georgia
Author: James A. CrutchfieldPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493039482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
From prehistoric harvest rituals celebrated by early Native Americans to the terrible Flood of 1994, It Happened in Georgia looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Peach State. Learn about the first use of a “miracle gas” that made surgical procedures painless. Find out why hundreds of female mill workers were forcibly removed from Atlanta to Indiana, many with no means to return home. Discover how a constitutional loophole, two state-run armies with conflicting loyalties, and some dubious vote counts allowed three candidates to claim the title of governor simultaneously. Follow naturalist John Muir’s trek of discovery through Georgia, where he admired the state’s natural wonders and its residents alike.
Boxed out of the NBA
Author: Syl SobelPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538145030
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-78) was fast and physical, often played in tiny, smoke-filled gyms across the northeast and featuring the best players who just couldn’t make the NBA—many because of unofficial quotas on Black players, some because of scandals, and others because they weren’t quite good enough in the years when the NBA had less than 100 players. In Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League, Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein tell the fascinating story of a league that was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, showcasing top players from around the country. During the early years of professional basketball, the Eastern League was the next-best professional league in the world after the NBA. It was home to big-name players such as Sherman White, Jack Molinas, and Bill Spivey, who were implicated in college gambling scandals in the 1950s and were barred from the NBA, and top Black players such as Hal “King” Lear, Julius McCoy, and Wally Choice, who could not make the NBA into the early 1960s due to unwritten team quotas on African-American players. Featuring interviews with some 40 former Eastern League coaches, referees, fans, and players—including Syracuse University coach Jim Boeheim, former Temple University coach John Chaney, former Detroit Pistons player and coach Ray Scott, former NBA coach and ESPN analyst Hubie Brown, and former NBA player and coach Bob Weiss—this book provides an intimate, first-hand account of small-town professional basketball at its best.