Hickory_Rebels

Hickory Rebels

Hickory Rebels

Minor league baseball team

The Hickory Rebels were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Hickory, North Carolina, that played from 1939–1940, 1940, 1945–1954, 1960. The Rebels were the predecessor of the current Hickory Crawdads in the South Atlantic League.

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History

The Rebels played in the Tar Heel League (1939–1940, 1953–1954), North Carolina State League (1942, 1945–1951) and Western Carolinas League (1952, 1960). They were affiliates of the New York Giants (1945–1949) and Chicago Cubs (1952–1954).[1] A former team of the same name had participated in the independent Carolina League between 1936 and 1938.[2]

The ballpark

The Rebels played at Fairgrounds Park.[3] Fairgrounds Park is now called Henkel-Alley Field and serves as home to American Legion baseball and the Catawba Valley Community College Red Hawks.

Notable alumni

References

  1. [1]
    "Greensboro, North Carolina Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com.
  2. [2]
    Utley, R.G., and Verner, Scott, The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936–1938, (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1999) pp. 260-61
  3. [3]
    "South Atlantic League Baseball Stadiums Photos and Ballparks Pictures of the Single-A Minor League SALLY League Stadiums Photographs". www.digitalballparks.com.


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