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The Blue Ridge League / Robert P. Savitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savitt, Robert P., Author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of baseball.
- Images of America
- Images of baseball
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Blue Ridge Mountains--History--Pictorial works.
- Baseball.
- Blue Ridge League (Baseball league)--History--Pictorial works.
- Blue Ridge League (Baseball league).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2011]
- Summary:
- Between 1915 and 1930, nine towns in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia hosted teams in one of the most successful Class D minor leagues in professional baseball. The Blue Ridge League launched the careers of legendary Hall of Famers Lefty Grove and Hack Wilson and served as a training ground or final stop for over 100 major-league players. This feisty league challenged laws prohibiting Sabbath baseball games (resulting in mass arrests of players and management), pioneered night baseball, served as a laboratory for the establishment of baseball's farm system, and helped develop a postseason five-state championship series.
- Contents:
- In the beginning
- The golden years
- Inter-regional championships
- The demise
- The legacy
- Year-by-year Blue Ridge League results.
- OCLC:
- 885207619
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