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This category includes players for the Statesville Owls Minor league baseball team who played in the Tar Heel League from 1939-1940, the North Carolina State League during the 1942 and 1947-1952 seasons and the Western Carolina League and Western Carolinas League from 1960-1963.
The Statesville Owls were a minor league baseball team located in Statesville, North Carolina.Statesville minor league teams played a member of the North Carolina Association (1900), Tar Heel League (1939–1940), North Carolina State League, (1942, 1945–1952), Tar Heel League (1953), Western Carolina League (1960–1962) and Western Carolinas League (1963–1964, 1966–1967, 1969), winning ...
The Western Carolinas League was a Class D (1948–52; 1960–62) and a low Class A (1963–79) full-season league in American minor league baseball.The WCL changed its name prior to the 1980 season and has been known since as the South Atlantic League, a Class A circuit with teams up the Eastern Seaboard from Georgia to New Jersey.
The Twins ended the season with a record of 42–57 record, finishing 22.5 games behind the champion Statesville Owls. The Twins played under player/manager Henry Nichols, who led the league with 66 RBI. No playoffs were held as Statesville won both half–season titles. [2] [31] [32] The Western Carolina League evolved into the 1963 Western ...
Members of the 1963 state Class A championship Sisseton Redmen boys basketball team held a 60-year reunion over the summer in Sisseton. Undefeated Redmen won state's big-school championship with a ...
Minor league baseball resumed in 1963, when the Rock Hill "Wrens" became members of the eight-team, Class A level Western Carolinas League as an expansion franchise. [5] The league had been classified as a Class D level league through 1962, when it ended the season as a four-team league with the Newton-Conover Twins, Salisbury Braves, Shelby Colonels and Statesville Owls as members.
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Henry Bibby (born 1949), basketball player for 3-time national champion UCLA, NBA player, college and pro coach (Franklinton) Eddie Biedenbach (born 1945), basketball player for NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and for North Carolina State University, NC Sports Hall of Fame (Wrightsville Beach) Ryan Blaney (born 1993), NASCAR driver