The Blue Ridge League
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
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."
Liked The Blue Ridge League? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Blue Ridge League. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
'30 Shares baseball history, baseball, sports
-
Ball, Bat and Bitumen: A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South Shares baseball history, baseball, USA
-
The best of pro baseball Shares baseball history, baseball, sports -
The barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers Shares baseball history, sports, baseball
