The Blue Rocks, Past and Present : Wilmington's Baseball Team 1940-1999

Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books, Ltd, 2000. 6" wide by 9" tall. A beautiful, pristine copy -- bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat. Pages are clean and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with drawings, old ads, posters & other baseball ephemera, and vintage photographs (teams and individuals). Statistics. Bibliography. From the rear cover: "The original Wilmington Blue Rocks joined the Class B Interstate League in 1940 and became its most successful franchise. The league prospered during the heyday of minor league baseball when more than 400 teams were playing in 59 leagues from coast to coast. The Interstate League was one of only nine of the leagues able to play through World War II, and it also overcame the difficult years of the Korean War. But it could not survive the advent of television…Forty years after the demise of the original team, a new Blue Rocks club emerged. Its performance in the Class A League has been even more spectacular, marking it as one of the most successful teams in organized baseball in the 1990s. Author Elbert Chance, a former University of Delaware administrator, recalls the humor, hits and heartaches of the teams and individual stars who played important roles in the sports history of [Delaware] and the nation.". First Edition. Softcover. New condition. Illus. by Driscoll, Paul (cover art). x, 380pp.