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	Eastern Shore Baseball League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Shore Baseball League was a Class D minor league baseball league that operated on the Delmarva Peninsula for parts of three different decades.
		The Eastern Shore Baseball League by William Mowbray (1989) remains the most comprehensive source for ESBL history.
		The league's first season was in 1922 and the last was in 1949, although the years were not consecutive, and featured teams from Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Shore_Baseball_League

	Maryland Eastern Shore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Eastern Shore Baseball League operated on three different occasions between the 1920s and 1950.
		The Eastern Shore of Maryland is composed of the state's nine counties east of the Chesapeake Bay.
		The advent of easy transportation and tourism to the Eastern Shore did much to erode its distinctive culture and its many accents that date to the 17th and 18th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland_Eastern_Shore

	New Jersey Sports Teams of the Past
		Jersey City's minor league baseball team in the Eastern League (1902 - 1911) and the International League (1912 - 1915 and 1918 - 1933).
		Jersey City's Double-A Eastern League baseball team from 1977 to 1978.
		Minor league baseball team in the International League from 1916 through 1949 (became the Akron Numatics for the 1920 season, and moved to Providence briefly in 1925).
	www.titans101.com /njpast.htm

	Eastern League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern League - A professional baseball minor league in the United States
		Eastern League - One of two professional baseball minor leagues in Japan
		There are at least two different possible meanings for Eastern League:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_League (108 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Baseball is played by amateurs of all ages, including numerous sandlot clubs and athletic associations, virtually every high school and college in the U.S., and scores of junior leagues.
		Among the earliest games to be played professionally in the U.S., baseball is also the most popular; it daily attracts crowds of fans to parks and stadiums where it is played, is followed by millions more over radio and television, and is reported extensively in almost every newspaper in the country.
		Much controversy surrounded baseball’s reserve clause, which bound a player to one team until the player retired or was traded; if a player’s contract expired, and no new agreement was reached, the clause allowed the team to renew the contract annually.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/baseball.html (2274 words)

	Major League Baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major League Baseball is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution, an agreement that has undergone several incarnations since 1876 then called the NL Constitution, with the most recent revisions being made in 2005.
		More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the entity that operates North American professional baseball's two major leagues, the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure which has existed between them since 1903.
		Major League Baseball, under the direction of its Commissioner, Bud Selig, hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_League_Baseball (2345 words)

	30 Oct 2004 - Stanley Glenn - Negro Leaguer in the News
		The other is a former player in a segregated African-American league who is an Accomack County native and is the current president of the Negro League Baseball Players Association.
		Both will be enshrined next month in the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame, which is located at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium here and works to promote and chronicle the region's unique baseball history, its players and coaches.
		Former players in the league keep in close contact, and there were only 23 living former Negro League players alive when Stanley wrote the letter earlier this year.
	www.nlbpa.com /30oct2004.html (2345 words)

	Baseball: Crisfield & Smith Island Cultural Alliance, Inc. Page
		The park was originally built for the 1937 Crisfield team in the Eastern Shore League, professional Class D. It was built for that we only lasted one year and then went under because we had no lights everthing was played in the daytime.
		You go to a minor league game, pay three or four dollars for a ticket for the best seat and people who like their baseball are returning to the roots, so to speak."
		There was also a Marva League on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
	www.smithisland.org /baseball.html (2345 words)

	Judy Johnson - first African American to be addmitted to Baseball's Hall of Fame
		He worked for the Phillies from 1959 to 1973, and in 1975, through the efforts of the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues, Judy Johnson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		Judy Johnson was born on October 26, 1899 in the Town of Snow Hill in Worcester County on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.
		Judy Johnson was exposed to baseball at an early age.
	www.lowershore.net /famousnatives/johnson.htm (2345 words)

	2004 -- The year in sports - Eastern Shore News - delmarvanow.com
		Local Eastern Shore Baseball League Hall of Famers Thomas "Boze" Kellam and Chuck "Slim" Churn are honored by the Delmarva Shorebirds.
		The Virginia Shores split an Eastern Shore Baseball League doubleheader against Tri-County.
		The Eastern Shore Stingers win the Slam II Baseball Tournament in Georgetown, Del. and qualify for the USSSA World Series.
	www.delmarvanow.com /easternshore/stories/20050101/1816335.html (2345 words)

	Minor League Baseball - Past Articles - MLN Sports Zone - The Leader in Minor League Sports ™ News
		The 2003 Minor League Baseball postseason is over and the champions have been crowned.
		The Mexico City Diablos and the Mexico Tigres will decide the Mexican League Baseball Championship.
		Minor League Baseball - Past Articles - MLN Sports Zone - The Leader in Minor League Sports ™ News
	www.minorleaguenews.com /baseball/pastarticles.html (2345 words)

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		According to the "Eastern Shore Baseball League" by William Mowbray the team dropped out of the league rather than forfeit its wins because of a roster violation.
		Then, in 1946 professional baseball returned when the Red Sox opened a D-class minor-league team to compete out of Milford in the Eastern Shore League.
		According to "A History of Baseball in Milford" by Robert Hendel, the L.D. Caulk Company-sponsored team won that game, 20-0, on the field on Montgomery street where Milford Little League's major league baseball field stands today.
	newszap.com /articles/2005/04/24/dm/central_delaware/sports/mcspt05.txt (2345 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - Share Your History
		At the eastern end of the old Causeway sprawled an enormous crop of wild oats and scraggly shrubbery among which lay a rusting old car body.
		In 1957 the Returned Services League, learning that the State Housing Commission intended to build housing there, asked for some of the land to be a commemoration site.
		The completion of the rail line from Fremantle to Guildford in 1881 and its extension to the Eastern Goldfields in the late 1890s, led to development of the greater Midland area which included Bellevue where the presence of clay deposits suitable for brick making had been found.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /write_a_history_promotion (2345 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Maine
		Portland Sea Dogs, minor league baseball, Eastern League (U.S. baseball)
		Eastern Maine north of the Kennebec River was more sparsely settled and was known in the 17th century as the Territory of Sagadahock.
		Portland Pirates, minor league hockey, American Hockey League
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Maine (2561 words)

	Fictional League Ideas - OOTP Developments Forums
		The National and American Leagues are no longer, as the league with 12 'real' MLB teams will be called the Eastern League.
		A league starting in 1982 with the idea that the recent strike killed MLB and this new league replaces it.
		The two leagues were the Continental and Federal, in honor of two leagues (one of which never formed) made to compete with the majors.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=35681 (2275 words)

	Negro Baseball League
		Decades after their demise, the Negro baseball leagues are beginning to be recognized for their contributions to black America's social and economic progress.
		Baseball was a segregated sport in the early 1900s - whites played in the Major Leagues, and Blacks played in the Negro Leagues.
		In the late 1800s and early 1900s, African American players were not accepted on major league baseball teams.
	www.42explore2.com /blkleag.htm (736 words)

	Umpire executives
		Cathy Davis came to Major League Baseball in 2000 after spending the previous 22 years with the National League, where she worked in the public relations department before moving to the umpiring department in 1987 as Senior Administrator.
		Palermo was previously hired by Major League Baseball on April 6, 1994, as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Major League Executive Council.
		Steve Palermo joined Major League Baseball in 2000 as an Umpire Supervisor.
	www.majorleagueumpires.com /executives.htm (1731 words)

	Connecticut Defenders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants major-league club.
		The Connecticut Defenders are a minor league baseball team based in Norwich, Connecticut.
		The Defenders play in Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium, located in Norwich; opened in 1995, it seats 6,275 fans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwich_Navigators (153 words)

	Eastern League Baseball
		Burnett, the 2002 Carolina League Pitcher of the Year, was selected by Baseball America as the "Best Pitching Prospect" in the Eastern League.
		Each month a player is chosen as the CHASE Eastern League Player of the Month and they are presented with an award during a ceremony in their home ballpark.
		Left-handed starting pitcher, Sean Burnett of the Altoona Curve led the Eastern League in wins this season with 14 and was also ranked among the league leaders in innings pitched (159.2-5th) and ERA (3.21-5th).
	www.easternleague.com /chase.htm (745 words)

	MLB.com News: 2002 First-Year Player Draft
		Returning to the Texas League and appearing out of the bullpen for the first time in his pro career, Lidge was 1-1/2.45 with 18 strikeouts in his first 11 innings this campaign and was promoted to Houston on April 21.
		Kearns rallied in the Arizona Fall League and was among the final cuts when Cincinnati broke camp for the 2002 campaign.
		He returned to the South Atlantic League franchise in 2000 and was sidelined with bone chips after only 14 games and an.083 batting average.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/draft2002/mlb_draft2002_content.jsp?content=draft_update_1998 (2822 words)

	Eastern League Prospects
		Casto is batting third for the Senators in the early part of the year but seems to be having an adjustment period to Eastern League pitching, striking out 13 times to five walks after 10 games.
		Baseball Prospectus reports that his "aptitude for repetition" needs work, too: "a failure to keep his mechanics consistent from one pitch to the next" is what "keeps Loewen from being a dominant pitcher." Both the mechanics and changeup are coachable.
		His defensive improvement -- Carolina League managers voted it best in the circuit at third base in 2005 -- is the more remarkable for his being a 2004 convert to the infield, and for his having his eye socket broken in his third pro game at third base.
	www.easternleagueprospects.com (1705 words)

	The U.S. Baseball Alliance - OOTP Developments Forums
		There had been talk that the brass at Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, in particular, were pitching a fit that the Hall of Fame, which MLB has long viewed as THEIR building, was welcoming Brett and a venture they said was no threat, but they clearly viewed as competition, even on a small scale.
		The Eastern League President will be Cal Ripken Jr., while the Western League President will be Tony Gwynn.
		That being said, the feeling around the league is that the best of the lot could be very good, particularly pitching and at first base, the first two positions we look at in our draft preview.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=32924 (6260 words)

	Current Minor League Equivalent Averages
		The final column in the player statistics, Major League EQA (MjEQA), applies difficulty adjustments to estimate what his current EQA would have been if he had been playing in the majors all along.
		There is one list of all players sorted by league and team, and another list sorted by player name.
		2) Equivalent Average, Equivalent Runs, and Runs Above Replacement-Position are all calculated for the player's league, exactly the same way as if it were a major league; thus, a.260 EQA means the player was an average hitter for this league; this means that it does adjust for the league and park.
	www.baseballprospectus.com /current/eqamin.html (6260 words)

	! International Angler
		Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Brooks passed up a chance to be a major league baseball pitcher and went to work in his family's insurance company.
		Six years after retirement, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with a record 282 votes.
		He grew up working in the family merchandising business and fishing the lakes and streams of eastern Pennsylvania and the waters of Chesapeake Bay.
	www.igfa.org /hall.asp (6260 words)

	BTF's Hall of Merit Discussion :: Jimmie Foxx
		Foxx complained about the National League, stating that the ball was dead and he didn't know the unpires or pitchers.
		He was not hitting that poorly with Boston before the injury (.270-.392-.460, League for year.257-.329-.357), but then was traded to the Cubbies where he hit terribly while injured.
		He played high school baseball and was soon demonstrating the power which would make him famous.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/primer/hom_discussion/28155 (6260 words)

	Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball - ( , MD) - powered by LeagueLineup.com
		SALISBURY- The Salisbury Bombers belted the host Virginia Shores 7-2 in the first half of their Eastern Shore League doubleheader on Sunday at Henry Parker Athletic Complex, clinching the second-seed in the circuit's annual Jimmy Carter Memorial Tournament.
		The Cardinals are to finish their regular season by hosting the Baltimore Bombers, with whom they've split two games thusfar on Tuesday evening at Randallstown High School with the league's eighth and final playoff spot on the line in the Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Game of the Week.
		The Bombers (10-21) are to finish their regular season by visiting the Presstman Cardinals, with whom they've split two games thusfar on Tuesday evening at Randallstown High School with the league's eighth and final playoff spot on the line in the Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Game of the Week.
	www.leaguelineup.com /welcome.asp?url=marylandsemiprobaseball (6260 words)

	Baseball Resources - Eastern
		DEVIL RAYS' MINOR LEAGUE PREVIEW February 11, 2003 — The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have young, talented players near the top of their farm system, and with the lack of depth on the big club, many of those...
		The Pulaski Blue Jays is a minor leauge baseball team affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays, and a competitive member of the Appalachain...
		The Stars are members of the Southern League and play their home games at Joe Davis St...
	www.battingpractice.com /links/eastern.html (6260 words)

	UMES' MOSELY GALLERY PRESENTS NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUE EXHIBIT :: Two former Negro League Players will be on hand for the opening reception.
		UMES Baseball has a tie to the Negro Leagues as former player, Ryan Hunter, was the grandson of Judy Johnson.
		Cash, catcher for the Philadelphia Stars in the Negro Leagues (1943-50) and player in the Mexican, Canadian and Minor Leagues (1950-53), sits on the Board of Directors for the Negro League Baseball Players Association.
		The UMES Negro League exhibition includes autographed photos, bats, balls and memorabilia from more than 100 baseball players.
	umeshawks.collegesports.com /genrel/102804aac.html (6260 words)

	Baseball Opens Season With a Pair of Wins :: Lafayette tops Maryland-Eastern Shore, 19-4, in first game of a doubleheader.
		Baseball Opens Season With a Pair of Wins :: Lafayette tops Maryland-Eastern Shore, 19-4, in first game of a doubleheader.
		PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (www.lafayette.edu) - Lafayette opened the 2001 baseball season on a strong note, dominating Maryland-Eastern Shore 19-4 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday in Princess Anne, Md.
		Lafayette tops Maryland-Eastern Shore, 19-4, in first game of a doubleheader.
	goleopards.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/030401aaa.html (6260 words)

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