Professional Baseball in North Carolina: An Illustrated City-by-City History, 1901-1996

by Chris Holaday

Book Overview

Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame's Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Morgan--got their starts in North Carolina, where baseball has been a fixture in the state for nearly 100 years--in Charlotte and Durham (whose Bulls were in the 1988 film Bull Durham) as well as Red Springs and Snow Hill. Following an historical statewide overview, year by year summaries and histories are provided for each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786425539
• ISBN13: 9780786425532
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher