The real challenge in this writing this blog is not finding stories to write about, I have plenty. The real challenge is figuring out which story will most interesting to my readers. Todays story has enough twists in it to make anyone dizzy. Our story today comes from June 2, 1951 in a league called the Coastal Plain League. This league was a class D league based in the state of North Carolina.
Most hitters would be happy to go 3 for 3 with a walk and 2 doubles. William Carr who was the shortstop for the the Tarboro A's had such a line, here comes the twist, in the fifth inning!! In the game played against the Wilson Tobs at Nash Memorial Stadium in Tarboro, the home team scored 24 runs in the fifth inning!! The A's sent 25 hitters to the plate before the first out of the inning was made. All told the A's had 17 hits, 29 at bats and 35 total bases in the inning. The Tobs sent 7 pitchers to the moound in the inning. When all was said and done, the home team scored a 31-4 win. Between the two teams 3 players would reach the majors, two of them from the Tarboro squad.
Want another twist to this story? Just 4 days later, the league was down to six clubs when the A's and the Greenville, NC Robins Clubs folded. The A's final record was 13-22, hardly the record of a team competing for the league championship. The Tobs finished the season with a 69-57 record. I guess the moral here is one bad inning does not a year make.
Tomorrow we will look at a busy day in the headlines of a single baseball day in 1932.
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