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The Georgia-Florida League 1935-1958 |
Author |
Robert P. Dews |
Summary |
"The Georgia-Florida League 1935-1958" by Robert P. Dews, 1985. A complete history, including compilations of statistics of the Georgia-Florida Baseball League, a D-Class Major League affiliated league. Thomasville franchises included the Orioles, Tigers, Tomcats, Lookouts, and Dodgers. From the inside front cover: " A lot of water passed under the bridge between 1935 and 1958 and the people who lived in that era endured a bitter depression and two major wars. One of the few bright spots here in the Southeast United States during that era was the Georgia-Florida Baseball league which excited the imaginations and fired the desire to be a part of the "team effort" as cities in their area to help the "big city" folks in Americus, Cordele, Tifton, Albany, Moultrie, Dothan, Panama City, Tallahassee, Thomasville, Waycross, Brunswick, Dublin, Fitzgerald and Valdosta - PULL for the home team boys. Thousands of young rookies came into this area to play professional baseball. Many of them met and married girls from these cities. Quite a few of these young players went to the big leagues - many bought homes, raised families and still live here. Wherever baseball people met, at an old timers get together or at the Annual Governor's Baseball Banquet in St. Petersburg, Florida. Some old timers would bring up the days of the Georgia-Florida League, its people, hotels, ball parks, bad roads, the players, umpires and the managers - and let us not forget those little bulb nosed school buses - those torture chambers designed to make the young man - old and the old man wish he had not decided to try it "one more year". If you were a fan in those days - perhaps a player or the son or granddaughter of a former player or loyal fan, here inside this book are gathered all of the old timers who played in the Georgia-Florida League during those memorable twenty-four years - their records - their team records - the standings and playoffs, along with a run-down of how things went each season. A few pictures of some of these players were located - Twenty-three years (plus) after the player was "long gone" from the league. For years there have been arguments about who did what - to whom and where - and when! At last these sometimes friendly arguments can be settled amicably - after which friends can really sit down and just about live those wonderful days over again." |
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Book |
Catalog Number |
1999.02.1 |
Published Date |
1985 |