About the Book
This 504 page book is a statistical history of the Georgia-Alabama, Georgia-Florida, and Georgia State Baseball Leagues spanning from 1906 to 1963. Featured in the Georgia Class-D Minor League Baseball Encyclopedia are:
- Player statistics for nearly every player who
ever pitched, batted, or took the field in one or
more of these leagues.
- Recaps of each year and league including team rosters of each team.
- Season and all-time league leaders and records.
- League all-star teams for each year.
- Maps of each league by year.
- Players who played / managed at the Major League level.
- Much more!
See the stats of Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey
from his first professional baseball assignment in Sandersville, Georgia in
1955. Check out the early managerial numbers of Earl Weaver when he played
and managed for Fitzgerald and Dublin in 1957 and 1958 resepectively.
Another Hall-of-Famer named Red Schoendienst made his professional debut down in
Albany, Georgia in 1942. Numerous big leaguers got their start playing
class-D baseball in one of the small Georgia cities that I've written about in
this book.
Here are the cities that played at least one season in at least one of these three leagues:
Georgia cities: Albany, Americus, Baxley, Brunswick, Carrollton, Cedartown, Columbus, Cordele, Douglas, Dublin, Eastman, Fitzgerald, Griffin, Hazlehurst, Jesup, LaGrange, Lindale, Lyons, Moultrie, Newnan, Rome, Sandersville, Sparta, Statesboro, Thomasville, Thomson, Tifton, Valdosta, Vidalia, and Waycross.
Alabama cities: Alabama City, Anniston, Attalla, Dothan, Gadsden, Huntsville, Lanett, Opelika, Selma, Talladega, Tallassee, and Valley.
Florida cities:
Gainesville, Panama City, and Tallahassee.
This book is loaded from cover to cover with
statistics and information about the teams of these three great class-D minor
leagues. Sorry, there aren't any pictures except on the cover.
Hoping to have a photographic history of the leagues sometime in the future.
ISBN 0971220425 published by Vabella Publishing, first edition. 150 pages, 8.0" x 10.75", paperback.
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