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Ben Abadie
Ben Abadie, head coach of Tulane's baseball program in the 1950s, is best known for his "field of dreams" training program.
Ben Abadie, head coach of Tulane's baseball program in the 1950s, is best known for his "field of dreams" training program.
Tulane alumnus Bobby Brown played professional baseball with the New York Yankees and won four world championships.
Louisianan and major league baseball player Connie Ryan played for the New York Giants.
A star athlete at Tulane University, Eddie Morgan played for the New Orleans Pelicans in 1927 before joining the Cleveland Indians.
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
New Orleanian George Strickland spent twenty-one years as a major league baseball player.
Howie Pollet was one of three left-handed pitchers from the same New Orleans block to make it to baseball's major leagues.
In 1924 New Orleans pitcher Oyster Joe Martina led the Washington Senators baseball team against the New York Giants to win the World Series.
New Orleans native Johnny Wright was one of the first African American baseball players to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers, but he never reached the major leagues.
Larry Gilbert played major-league baseball, including in the 1914 World Series, before managing the New Orleans Pelicans.
Louis "Rags" Scheuermann was a winning baseball coach at Loyola University and Delgado Community College, as well as in municipal sports programs for the city of New Orleans.
New Orleans born Mel Parnell had an All-Star career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
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