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1. David Lamb, Stolen Season, (New York: Warner Books Inc., 1991) 80.
2. W. Calvin Falwell and C. Rex Angel, president and vice-president of the Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, taped interview, November 2, 1994.
3. Richard B. Loyd and Bernard K. Mundy, Lynchburg: A Pictorial History, (Virginia Beach: The Donning Company / Publishers, Inc. 1975) 11-13, 18.
4. Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, Lynchburg Mets 1979 Souvenir Program, 13; Vin Sawyer, Lynchburg baseball historian officially registered with the Society of American Baseball Researchers (SABR), taped interview, October 26, 1994; Tom Webb, elementary school principal and co-owner of "The Wright Stuff" baseball card shop, taped interview, October 26, 1994.
5. Tom Ledford, administrator, Lynchburg Museum, phone interview, November 7, 1994.
6. Gunther Barth, City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth- Century America, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980) 148.
7. Horse racing was America's most popular sport until it was passed by baseball later in the century.
9. Neil J. Sullivan, The Minors: The Struggles and the Triumph of Baseball's Poor Relation from 1876 to the Present, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990). Sullivan presents his purist criticisms of astroturf and other 'artificial' developments including the designated hitter, adopted by the minor leagues in the early 1970s, and their effects on minor league baseball on pp. 274-282.
10. Benjamin G. Rader, Baseball: A History of America's Game, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992) 213.
11. National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, Professional Baseball Agreement and National Association Agreement, Statement of Purpose, (St. Petersburg: National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, 1990) 1, 112; Sullivan, vii.
12. Rader 205; Lamb's account of the Stockton (CA) Ports gives a clear picture of players' anxieties and minor league life, 25-37.
18. C. Falwell, interview. The McKenna family bought the team in 1943.
19. Paul Sunwall, general manager of the Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, interview, October 17, 1994.
20. Rader, 214; Vin Sawyer, "Lynchburg's Professional Baseball Teams," 1994 Lynchburg Red Sox Limited Edition Official Souvenir Program, 62.
21. James Edward Miller, The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore, (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990) 11.
22. Ibid., 6-11; Sullivan, 235.
24. Loyd and Mundy, 24; U. S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing: 1970, CENSUS TRACTS, Final Report PHC (1)-121 Lynchburg, Va. SMSA.
25. Loyd and Mundy, 25; Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg, vol. 1, no. 12, Sept. 1969, 3.
27. Terry Falwell, Board of directors, Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, taped interview, November 2, 1994.
29. Ibid. The Southern League was still called the South Atlantic League until it changed names in 1964.
31. C. Falwell, interview; T. Falwell, interview. Terry Falwell recalled the story that when some of the Savannah players heard that they were moving to Lynchburg, they replied that they weren't going anywhere until they learned more about how the town had gotten its name.
33. After a few years as Lynchburg GM, McKenna accepted the job of Carolina League president and worked to guide the league through the troubled 1970s.
35. Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, 1990 Official Souvenir Program, 50.
40. Ibid.; Lynchburg opened its second high school in 1953.
42. Adam Sher, curator, Lynchburg Museum, interview, October 12, 1994.
43. Lynchburg Life, 1994, 17-20.
44. 1970 census; U. S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing: 1980, CENSUS TRACTS, Final Report, PHC 80-2-230 Lynchburg, Va. SMSA; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing: 1990, CENSUS TRACTS, Final Report, CPH-3-218 Lynchburg, Va. SMSA.
45. Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg, vol. 1, no. 13, October 1969, 11.
47. Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg, vol. 1, no. 7, April 1969, 4.
48. Jim L. Sumner, Separating the Men from the Boys: the First Half-Century of the Carolina League, (Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1994) 108.
49. Harold Massie, (Greater Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce), "Rangers Unfurl Banner in Lynchburg, Lynchburg, vol. VII, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1975, 4.
50. Dorothy T. and Clifford W. Potter, Lynchburg: The Most Interesting Spot, (Lynchburg: Progress Publishing Corp., 1976), 113; Loyd and Mundy, 113, 149. Only the pictorial history mentions the inclusion of a baseball field on YMCA Island when it opened in 1912 and the construction of City Stadium.
52. Harvey Frommer, Primitive Baseball, (New York: Atheneum, 1988) 116.
53. Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg, vol. 1, no. 8, May 1969, 6.
54. Calvin Falwell, interview.
55. Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, Mets Magazine, 1982, 31.
56. Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, Official 1985 Mets Magazine, 34; Vin Sawyer, interview, November 2, 1994.
57. John Miller, assistant director of broadcasting, Lynchburg Baseball Corporation, interview, October 17, 1994.
59. Frank Adkisson, Lynchburg Mets 1987 Official Souvenir Program, "Four Years Running -- Still America's Best," 49.
60. 'K' is the scorekeeper's symbol for strikeout.
63. Vin Sawyer, "Lynchburg's Professional Baseball Teams"; Rader, 214; Paul Sunwall, interview.
65. Rex Angel, interview. The answer to the question is the Atlanta Braves.
66. Paul Sunwall, interview; Calvin Falwell, interview; Rex Angel, interview; Terry Falwell, interview.
68. Mark Maske, "Baseball Checks Its Pockets," Washington Post, 29 October 1994, natl. ed., sec. A: 1.
70. Calvin Falwell and Rex Angel, interview.
72. Scott Tolley, "LB Chief promises city will field team in '88", Lynchburg News and Daily Advance, 11 September, 1987, sec. A: 7.
73. 1990 Official Souvenir Program.
76. Jeff Motley, "Team One Comes to Lynchburg", Lynchburg News and Daily Advance, 22 October 1994, sec. B: 1.
77. Lynchburg Daily News and Advance, 18 October 1994, sec. D: 2.