| The Blue Ridge League Contributor(s): Savitt, Robert P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738582395 ISBN-13: 9780738582399 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 2010940814 |
| Series: Images of Baseball |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.54" W x 9.21" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Geographic Orientation - West Virginia - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Savitt, Robert P.: - Author Robert P. Savitt lectures and writes on a variety of historical subjects and is a past president of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. Bob holds a doctoral degree from Georgetown University, has served in the Departments of Defense and State, and was legislative director for a US senator. |