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Carolina League History. Over its first 59 years, the Carolina League has established itself as one of baseball’s premier minor leagues, a circuit renowned for hot prospects, intense rivalries, memorable pennant races, and excellent play.
The Carolina League of Minor League Baseball is a Single-A baseball league in the United States that began play in 1945. A league champion was determined at the end of each season by either postseason playoffs or being declared champion by the league office.
4 kwi 2022 · Founded at the tail end of World War II, the Carolina League consisted of eight teams at its inception: six from North Carolina and two from southern Virginia. Following the Minors’ realignment...
The Carolina League was announced on October 29, 1944, after an organizational meeting at Durham, North Carolina. It was a successor to the Class D Bi-State League that existed before World War II.
1 mar 2024 · History of the Carolina League of Minor League Baseball that operated from 1945 until 2020, including a list of members & league champions.
History. The league's independent status led to the league being branded as an "outlaw" league by supporters of the NAPBL, and the league's practice of allowing players to freely leave their contracts to play for teams in other leagues, was unorthodox at the time.
It contains data culled from newspaper boxscores, covering league sanctioned games from 1920 to 1948, which was produced for a study sponsored by Major League Baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
