Tag: Frances Crockett

Greensboro Hornets Baseball

Greensboro Hornets

November 24, 2017

The Greensboro Hornets were a popular Class A minor league baseball team that played from 1979 through 1993. The Hornets led the Western Carolinas League and its successor, the South Atlantic League, in attendance for fourteen consecutive seasons between 1979 and 1992. While serving as a New York Yankees farm team during the early 1980’s, the Hornets would three consecutive South Atlantic League championships in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The franchise remains in Greensboro to this day, but gave up the Hornets name in favor of the ‘Bats’ in 1994 and changed names again in 2005, becoming the ‘Grasshoppers’.

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1985 Charlotte Orioles baseball program from the Southern League

Charlotte Orioles

May 23, 2015

The Charlotte Orioles were the long-time Class AA Southern League farm club of the Baltimore Orioles.  Promoted locally as “The O’s”, the ball club was owned by famed Southern wrestling promoter Jim Crockett Jr. The Crocketts ran the O’s in true mom & pop style.  While Jim Jr. and his brothers focused on the wrestling promotion inherited from their late father, sister Frances Crockett managed the O’s business operations as one of the rare female General Managers of the era.  A retired wrestler named Klondike Bill handled the groundskeeping duties.

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