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Baseball in Asheville (NC) (Images of Baseball)

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Baseball has served as the pastime of preference in Asheville, North Carolina, for more than a century. Nearly anywhere a flat lot will also be found within the rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, baseball has been played by locals and visitors alike, with among the city’s greatest thrills created by the place of birth Tourists, who have been mainstays within the professional ranks for among the past 80 years. Oates Park, where writer Thomas Wolfe toiled as a batboy prior to attending the University of North Carolina, served as the house of the Mountaineers, Tourists, and the semi-pro Asheville Royal Giants all through the first three decades of the 20th century until McCormick Field was once built within the mid-1920s. The ballpark, just south of downtown Asheville, welcomed the likes of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth all through exhibition contests, at the same time as future Hall of Famers Eddie Murray and Willie Stargell and current standouts Todd Helton and Juan Pierre honed their skills within the mountains on their way to the game’s top level.

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