Record #:

5866

Author(s):

Terrell, Bob

Abstract:

On August 30, 1916, Winston-Salem and Asheville, two baseball teams in the North Carolina State League, made baseball history by playing the shortest 9-inning game on record - 31 minutes. Thomas Wolfe was the batboy for the Asheville team. The feat lay hidden for fifty years until it was accidentally discovered by Dick Kaplan, a sports writer for the Asheville Citizen.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 1, June 2003, p25-26, il

Subject(s):

Baseball--History