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Eastern Carolina Baseball Association

former minor baseball league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2020
Entity authorityQ5330045 ↗
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The Eastern Carolina Baseball Association was a six team minor league baseball affiliation which operated in the Eastern part of North Carolina. The league was considered to be an "outlaw" league since it existed outside of the law of the National Association.

The association lasted three seasons (1920-1922). Members included Washington, New Bern, Kinston, Greenville, Tarboro, and Farmville.

Although, as an outlaw league, it was on the lowest rung of professional baseball, the circuit did produce some athletes of note including George Suggs, Pat Crawford, and College Football Hall of Fame member Ira Rodgers.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1922—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Eastern, Carolina and Baseball can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former minor baseball league. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eastern Carolina Baseball Association” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.