Alabama Florida League – 2002 Georgia Minors Reunion

 
2002 Georgia Minor Leagues Reunion
Clint Chafin has done great things with his Georgia Minor League Reunions. These
pictures are from the 2002 Georgia Minor Leagues Reunion held in Moultrie, Ga.
Over 50 former Minor League Stars attended the event, and it was such a success
that Clint is going to do it again:
Bill Kivett (left) Signs bats at the reunion.  Bill played in the late forties
and early fifties, including a season in the Georgia-Florida League at Moutrie,
Georgia, and a year as a member of the  Selma Cloverleafs of the Southeastern
League
Bobby McGee (seated, left), Elmer Tessin (seated, right) & Paul Eames (back, left).  
McGee had a great season at Hazelhurst-Baxley Cardinals (Georgia
State League) in 1954 driving in 111 runs and batting .306.
Tessin won 16
games for the 1950 Moultrie Cubs of the Geogia-Florida League, and Eames spent
5 seasons in the Georgia-Florida League, 2 with the Albany Cardinals, 1 with the
Thomasville Tomcats, 1 with the Waycross Bears, and 1 with the Tifton Indians.
Left to right: Jack Daughty, Floyd Moser, Paul Eames (standing), and Hank Spain. 
Moser played most of his ball in Class D Carolina leagues, and Spain spent
two seasons with the  Cordele A’s of the Georgia-Florida League.
Tex Young(left) & Milton Wrenn(right).  Young played with the Cordele Indians(Georgia-Florida
League), and the  Vidalia-Lyons Twins & Dublin Green Sox
of the Georgia State League. Wrenn played with Moultrie and Tifton of the Georgia-Florida
League. Clint Chafin also tells us, » Mr. Wrenn, played, as he says, 
�Had a cup of coffee�  with the Philly A�s Major League Club. He played
for Connie Mack.
Mr. Wrenn had a great Minor League career and even
started his own Semi-Pro team in Moultrie. He was a Little League Coach for several
years in Moultrie ».

The participants at the 2002 reunion.
Attendees:                
Alabama-Florida League           
Georgia-Alabama League        
Georgia-Florida-League          
Georgia State League
  

Blas Arroyo                               
1948,1950
Carrollton

Danny
Bass       1950 Geneva                                       
1950
Albany  

Billy
Bledsoe                                                      
1949-50
Valdosta
                                                                   
1953
Thomasville

Neil
Cobb       
1948-49
Geneva
                
1950
Dothan
                
1953,
1956-57
Ft. Walton
                
1954-55
Crestview 
                

Les
Crouch                                
1947-48
Cordele                                  
1953-43
Douglas
                                          
1955
Moultrie                                    
1953
Statesboro
                                                                                           

                                          

Jack
Daughtry                             
1946
Newnan

Mayes
Dobbins                                                                               
1950
Eastman
                                                                                            
1952-54
Vidalia

Paul
Eames                                                         
1950-51
Albany
                                                                   
1952
Thomasville
                                                                   
1954
Waycross
                                                                   
1955
Tifton

Floyd
Faust                                                        
1953-54
Brunswick

Edsel
Griffin                             
1947-48
LaGrange

Jim
Harp                                                                                    
1949-51,1953
Eastman
                                                                                            
1952
Vidalia

George

Herrington                                                         
1951
Waycross

Ed
Hartness                                                        
1938-39
Americus        
1949-50
Eastman
                                                                   
1953-54
Tifton

Steve
Kebler                                                       
1958
Valdosta           
1956
Thompson

Bill
Kivett                                                        
1956
Moutrie

Arnold
Heft                                                        
1938
Thomasville

Otto
Kossuth                                                       
1950
Moutrie

Joey
Loudermilk                                                                             
1950-51
Eastman

Ken
Markham                                                        
1946-47
Thomasville

Bobby
McGee                                                                                 
1954
Hazelhurst/Baxley

Deane
Mink                                                         
1953
Valdosta
                                                                   
1954
Thomasville

Floyd
Moser

Vic Smith

Thomas Proctor                                                     
1954-55
Albany          
1955
Hazelhurst/Baxley

Harry
Raulerson                                                    
1946,
1948-51
Waycross

Rollie
Rice     
1957
Panama City                                  
1952,
1956 Albany  

Arthur Schmidt                              
1949-50
Newnan                         

Logan
Sharpless
                                                    
1947 Cordele

Hal Smith �
Batboy

Hank Spain                                                         
1949-50
Cordele

Hillory
Stanton 
1951-52
Ozark

Fred Stevenson                              
1949
LaGrange

Norris

Strickland                                                         
1947-49
Cordele

Elmer
Tessin                                                       
1950
Moutrie

Jim
Tyler                                                                                    
1950
Dublin
                                                                                             
1950-52
Eastman
                                                                                             
1953
Sandersville

Milton
Wrenn                                                       
1947,1949-52
Moutrie
                                                                   
1950
Tifton 

Robert
Zuccarini
1957
Pensacola                                    
1956
Waycross            
1952-53
Hazelhurst/Baxley

Phil
�Chicken�

Gilbert                                                                                      
1951
Hazelhurst/Baxley
                                                                                             
1952
Eastman
                                                                                             
1954-55
Vidalia

Chester Kavanage

Chester Ploszaj                                                                              
1951-52
Hazelhurst/Baxley

Bob
Hegwood

Dizzy
Adams     
1947
Geneva                
1948-49,
1951
LaGrange 

Justin Bracewell

Sonny
Clements                              
1949
Tallahassee

WR �Ears�
Caldwell                                                                                     
1949-53
Eastman
                                                                                             
1955
Douglas
                                                                                             
1956
Dublin

David
Wyman


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