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| + | The Marion Marauders were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Marion, North Carolina. The 1952 Marauders compiled a record of 60-50 in the six-team Western Carolina League and finished the season in third place, 11 1/2 games behind the first place Lincolnton Cardinals. Marion was swept in the first round of the playoffs by Lincolnton.{{footnote-newspaper | title=Marion Begins Playoffs at Lincolnton Tonight | newspaper=The McDowell News | year=1952 | month=September | day=1 }} | ||
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| + | The Marauders were an independent team, as were most lower-level minor league teams in 1952, and had no working agreement with a major league team. Only one player on the roster was under contract to a major league team: James Frank Callihan, a pitcher who was signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Browns and assigned to Marion. | ||
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| + | The team played its home games at Marion High School Field. | ||
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The Marion Marauders were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Marion, North Carolina. The 1952 Marauders compiled a record of 60-50 in the six-team Western Carolina League and finished the season in third place, 11 1/2 games behind the first place Lincolnton Cardinals. Marion was swept in the first round of the playoffs by Lincolnton.[1]
The Marauders were an independent team, as were most lower-level minor league teams in 1952, and had no working agreement with a major league team. Only one player on the roster was under contract to a major league team: James Frank Callihan, a pitcher who was signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Browns and assigned to Marion.
The team played its home games at Marion High School Field.
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