List of Kinston baseball people

The following are lists of people associated with professional baseball in Kinston, North Carolina. This includes players, coaches and managers as well as a list of members of Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. The Kinston-based teams were:

Players

The following is a partial list of notable alumni who played in at least one game for at least one of Kinston's minor league teams from 1908 to 2010.

Managers

The name of each Kinston manager is followed by the years he served.

Coaches

Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

Following each person's name is the year of induction in the Hall of Fame. Inductions usually occur during a "hot stove" banquet in late January or early February. There were four inductees in the initial class of 1983. There were no inductees in 1986 or 1987. Grady Little was elected in 2000 but could not be inducted until 2001 due to a snow storm.[1]

References

League histories

Chrisman, David F. (1988). The History of the Virginia League. Maverick Publications. LCCN 88141058. OCLC 18682314.
Gaunt, Robert (1997). We Would Have Played Forever: The Story of the Coastal Plain Baseball League. Baseball America, Inc. ISBN 0-945164-02-5.
Holaday, J. Chris (1998). Professional Baseball in North Carolina: An Illustrated City-by-City History, 1901–1996. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0532-5.
Johnson, Lloyd; Miles Wolff, eds. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, second ed. Baseball America, Inc. ISBN 0-9637189-8-3.
Sumner, Jim L. (1994). Separating the Men From the Boys: The First Half-Century of the Carolina League. John F. Blair. ISBN 0-89587-112-2.
Other sources

  • "1882 to present". The Kinston Daily Free Press. – Issues for the 1908 season do not exist. Issues for all other seasons are available on microfilm at Lenoir Community College.
  • "Kinston Eagles/Expos/Blue Jays/Indians Programs and Roster Sheets". – Programs are also referred to as yearbooks.
  • "Official Site of the Class A Advanced Carolina League". Minor League Baseball. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
  • "Official website of the Kinston Indians | 1998present". Wayback Machine. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2009-04-13. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  • Carolina League Record Book | 1956–present. Baseball America. – Over the years, this publication has also been known as Carolina League Media Guide and Record Book and Carolina League Directory and Record Book
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