At 14-96, the Granite Falls Graniteers had the worst minor league record of all time in 1951.

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/t-gg11774/y-1951 

Valdese, one of the few teams that only played in the outlaw league

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/roster/t-vt15105/y-1936 

The 1937 outlaw league Concord Weavers drew a franchise high 70K with veteran manager Bobby Hipps at the helm.

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/t-cw11051/y-1937 

Ponce De Leon Park, Atlanta, 60s

 

Hank Utley's donation to the Charlotte Mecklenburg library is the best source for the Independent Carolina Outlaw League

https://www.cmstory.org/exhibits/outlaw-carolina-baseball-league-1936-1938/outlaw-carolina-baseball-league-1936-1938 

Norman Pinkie James, Hickory's greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th Century, played football for Wallace Wade

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-ae579ae3 

Weight of Bat, Ruth and Pujols

 

George Barley, once a Yankees Prospect, pitched in the outlaw league in 1936

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=barley001geo 

1978 Kinston Eagles, Manager Leo Mazzone

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/t-ke12357/y-1978 

Everybody had a team back in the day, even Mayberry

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/t-mg13150 

KInston had an amazingly strong baseball tradition for a town so small.

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/t-ke12357 

Bill Herring had quite a minor league pitching career. You'd think he'd have gotten a shot at the MLB. Pitched in the Easter Monday baseball game in Raleigh, 40s

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-d57e72d7 

Look at the attendance in Goldsboro in 1946. Amazing.

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/t-gg11723 

We did a chapter on him in Outlaw Ballplayers

 

Don Padgett Lenoir-Rhyne alumni

https://baseballhall.org/discover/padgett-catches-a-glimpse-of-history-for-1939-cardinals#:~:text=Despite%20this%20offensive%20might%2C%20St,the%20third%2Dplace%20finisher%20at%20.