Love of the Game Productions

https://www.loveofthegameproductions.com/inside-the-press-box/interview-with-paul-lo-duca-497/ 

Movie loosely based on the life of Alabama Pitts. Note that it's written by Lawes.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030543/ 

Those independent league stats are available in Hank Utley's book on the Carolina Independent League 1936-38

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=pitts-001edw 

Broughton Hospital, Morganton, NC, where Alabama Pitts' mother died

 

Always on EBAY

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196216547275 

Amazingly, this book is still in print from 2006--contains a lengthy chapter on Pitts and an appendix section from his cousin that reveals new information about him and his family

https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Ballplayers-Interviews-Profiles-Independent/dp/0786426144/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2J6A6VQCCNRYY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PmdHsxP4dLN_GYGE6QSdzw.-dpUpORhxWuZsJp7XCtbajLxBL2RXzOfCIEylm8S7IA&dib_tag=se&keywords=outlaw+ballplayers&qid=1768651949&s=books&sprefix=outlaw+ballplahers%2Cstripbooks%2C145&sr=1-1 

1935 Press Photo

 

Pitts with his old man young man face

 

Valdese Red Tops 1936

 

Sing Sing Baseball Ticket

 

Birmingham News coverage of Pitts' attempt to play for Albany

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news/40886632/ 

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