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| | Eastern League Baseball |
 | | League membership fluctuated between six and eight teams until 1994, when the league grew to ten teams with the addition of the New Haven Ravens and the Portland Sea Dogs. |
 | | The Eastern League set the current attendance record during the 2004 season, when a total of 3,914,027 fans passed through the gates at Eastern League ballparks. |
 | | Among the Eastern League hurlers who have won the pitching equivalent of the Triple Crown (league leader in wins, ERA, and strikeouts) are Wilkes-Barre's Red Embree in 1941, Chet Covington of Scranton in 1943, Mark Davis of the 1980 Reading Phillies, and two members of the Springfield Giants: Juan Marichal (1959) and Gerry Thomas (1961). |
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