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By L.M. Sutter

They emerged from the mines, shook off the coal dirt, and stepped onto the diamond. From the early 1900s to the Nineteen Fifties, baseball video games among mine staff have been a small-town phenomenon, each one group attracting avid and very unswerving enthusiasts. gifted part-time athletes competed on the novice, semi-pro degrees. both aggressive have been the coal corporation officers, who frequently introduced in ringers, or avid gamers of remarkable skill, giving them more straightforward jobs above floor or a padded pay packet. in accordance with interviews with surviving gamers, households of deceased gamers, and modern assets, this thoroughgoing heritage covers not just groups and leagues yet their functionality in the mining groups of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. The ebook incorporates a distinct part on African-American mining groups, a coalfield map and plenty of photographs.

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