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| | Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The city of Reading, Pennsylvania, located in the eastern part of the state, joined professional baseball near the dawn of the minor leagues as a member of the Interstate League in 1883. |
 | | Reading’s next foray into minor league baseball came in 1907 as a member of the Class B Tri-State League. |
 | | Other Reading players who reached the majors were 1B Francisco Melendez, who played 74 games for the Phillies, Giants and Orioles, 1984-89, and LHP George Riley, who went 1-5, 4.97 with the Cubs, Giants and Expos in 1979-80, 84 and 86. |
| www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=62 (1293 words) |
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