Record #:

14489

Author(s):

May, Strugis

Abstract:

North Carolina, along with Texas and California, leads all other states in the nation in supplying baseball players to the major and minor leagues.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 2, June 1945, p1, 21-22, f

Subject(s):

Baseball players

Record #:

14933

Author(s):

Card, W.W.

Abstract:

Trinity College and Duke University can both boast a long line of fine athletes. One such is George Barley, a graduate of Duke University in 1937, and a baseball pitcher with a 0.923 percentage! No wonder he was drafted by the New York Yankees right after graduation.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 3, June 1942, p3, f

Subject(s):

Baseball players

Record #:

14936

Author(s):

Card, W.W.

Abstract:

John Wesley Coombs, dubbed \"Colby Jack\" was one of the greatest figures that baseball has produced, and his work as coach at Duke University was truly outstanding.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 7, July 1942, p5, 18, f

Subject(s):

Baseball players

Record #:

15290

Author(s):

Kluttz, Jim

Abstract:

Twenty-two years experience in professional baseball and ten years of collegiate coaching is the record that stands behind Bunn Hearn, who is beginning his eleventh season as head coach of the University of North Carolina baseball team. A native of Chapel Hill, Hearn played football and baseball for Mississippi A & M. He later played baseball for St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Boston Braves, before returning to the south as manager for Kinston and several other coastal plains teams.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 45, Apr 1940, p9-10, f

Subject(s):

Baseball players