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Charlotte’s appeal to teams: ‘absence of temptation’

Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Despite its less-than-tropical Aprils, turn-of-the-century Charlotte provided spring training for at least two National League baseball teams. After the Philadelphia Phillies trained there in 1899, Sporting Life magazine noted that “the place offers so many natural advantages for such work and there is such an absence of temptation in that inland city that Manager [William] […]

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How N.C. helped keep Red Barber in Brooklyn

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

[After Larry MacPhail of the Yankees made an offer to radio announcer Red Barber to leave the Dodgers, Branch Rickey made a counteroffer for him to stay.] “I was deeply troubled that Rickey’s offer might be because MacPhail’s offer had put him on the spot, that in time he might regret having had to make […]

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