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A Ground-Zero Start to Building a Baseball Team and Ballpark

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A Brief History of the Washington Stars

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Up to Washington: Bob Groom’s Early Life in Baseball

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Country Ball: Big Teams in Small Towns

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The Little Corporation: Professional Baseball in San Francisco, 1953–1955

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Leon Allen Goslin: The Wild Goose of the Potomac

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Baseball Braggin’ Rights: The Five-State Series, 1922–1927

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James Vincent Jamison Jr.: Blue Ridge League President, 1916–18, 1920–30

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The All-Time Team of Bob Davids Chapter Natives

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The Class D Blue Ridge League: 1918, the Lost Season

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