Carl Kline

A Baseball Summer in the South (eBook, ePUB)

Photos of the Appalachian League 2015

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover the Appalachian League. The Advanced Rookie level of Minor League baseball where so many have gotten their start in professional baseball. This is a book of photographs with a dual purpose. One is to share with the reader different views of the ballparks to understand the charm and appeal of each team. In the late 1800s and early 1900s town ball spread across the country. Towns formed teams to compete with each other for bragging rights and fierce rivalries developed. The Appy League reminds me of about the closest example of Town Ball that we have today. Allen LaMountain published a definitive book on the history and background of the league as well as stories of many that made the majors after gaining their starts in the Appy. I hope this book serves to help the readers of LaMountains book (Appalachian League Baseball-Where Rookies Rise) to visualize some of the stories he describes. The second purpose is to present photos of the Appy players (although not all inclusive) from the 2015 season. Some of these young men will advance to higher levels of the minors and some all the way to the Major Leagues. But many might only advance a level or two and some may not advance at all. I have tried to provide photos of many so there might be a source for them to say, This is where I started my professional baseball career. (Over 400 young hopefuls played in the Appy in 2015) Team baseball card sets are produced by most Minor League teams. But the Appy League short season, late June through late August, makes it financially challenging to produce sets. By the time photos are taken and the turnaround time with the card companies, sometimes it is early to mid-August until the team has sets to sell at the ballpark. Required minimum orders can sometimes mean a loss in production costs. In 2015 only 5 of the ten Appalachian League teams produced card sets. But every player in every set produced is especially proud of his first card. So, if you find yourself in Eastern Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia or North Carolina and you are hungry for baseball in the middle of summer..Discover the Appalachian League. You will not be disappointed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514456828
• Artikelnr.: 52566054

Autorenporträt

Reading, Pennsylvania was Class A Eastern League farm team of the Cleveland Indians in theMid-1950's. The author grew up 5 blocks from the ballpark and spent far too many evenings chasing foul balls in the parking lot and either trading in a ball for admission to the game or waiting for the seventh inning and entering when the gates opened for the last 2 innings. Later in my adulthood, my dad and my son would accompany me to numerous minor league games in Reading and elsewhere through the east and south. In the late 90's I moved to North Carolina and found myself doing photographic projects for the Kinston Indians(Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians). Here is where I first discovered the Appy League charm in the Burlington Indians, Rookie affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. In the next 15 years I saw all the Appalachian League teams play in Burlington and Danville, Virginia. Three years ago we moved back to Pennsylvania, about 20 miles north of Harrisburg (a AA Eastern League affiliate of the Washington Nationals) to Millersburg, Pa. My photo training came from six years in the Air Force (66-72) courtesy of Uncle Sam. I combined my training with my enthusiasm for the game in the late 1980's and started shooting baseball regularly. While in North Carolina I regularly shot Minor League, Major League and College baseball. And in 2015 I visited all 10 cities in the Appy League and I'd like to share some of that trip with the reader. I am proud and thankful to have had the opportunity to do something I love. But I am most proud that my interest in baseball and photography may have passed on a love for the game to my son, Chris, a successful scout, first for the Pittsburgh Pirates and currently for the Toronto Blue Jays.