This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. (In 1963, with the collapse of the Southern Association, the league was promoted to Double-A status and renamed the Southern League.) Each chapter opens with a season summary and is followed by league standings, team records and rosters, and statistics for each player.

Award-winning author Marshall D. Wright is a sports statistician and archivist. He lives in Quincy, Massachusetts and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and Society International of Hockey Research.

Marshall D. Wright
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 427
Bibliographic Info: tables, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2009
pISBN: 978-0-7864-3626-2
eISBN: 978-0-7864-5492-1
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgments      vii
Preface      xi

Prelude—Southern Alternative      1
1904—“Little Coast League”      3
1905—Georgia Peach      8
1906—Paucity of Data      13
1907—Arthur Raymond      18
1908—Jacksonville Jays      23
1909—Seven Gems      29
1910—Foxes and Peaches      35
1911—Orphans      41
1912—Import      47
1913—Savannah Colts      52
1914—Charleston Sea Gulls      58
1915—Change of Plans      64
1916—Quick Retribution      70
1917—Clouds on the Horizon      77
1919—Association      82
1920—Columbia Comers      87
1921—Goose      93
1922—Skein Unraveled      99
1923—Charlotte Hornets      105
1924—George Rhinehardt      111
1925—“Clever Nine”      117
1926—Greenville Spinners      124
1927—Southern Championship      130
1928—Tourists      137
1929—Passing Through      144
1930—James Hudgens      152
1936—Columbus Red Birds      158
1937—Three-Cornered Tilt      165
1938—Seventh Game      171
1939—Double      180
1940—Ray Sanders      188
1941—Little Dixie      196
1942—One-Man Wrecking Crew      205
1946—War Hero      213
1947—Suspended      222
1948—Triple Play      230
1949—Macon Peaches      237
1950—Leagues Apart      244
1951—Hard and Easy      252
1952—Bad Year      259
1953—Five Brave Men      268
1954—Try Out      277
1955—Windstorm      287
1956—John Tsitouris      297
1957—Augusta Tigers      307
1958—Reduction      317
1959—Temporary Home      325
1960—Proven Leader      335
1961—Hard Luck      345
1962—Segregated Seating      355
1963—Out with the Old      365
Postlude—In with the New      375

Selected Bibliography      377
Index      379