The Blue Ridge League

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert P. Savitt
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9780738582399
• ISBN: 978-0-7385-8239-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 322 g
• Series: Images of Baseball
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous