Baseball Historians...I need some help.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

My grandfather played minor league ball, class B (and then some semi-pro) during the 1920'a-1930's. He only played sparringly after meeting my grandmother in 1933 while working for the CCC in Louisiana. He joined the army in the mid thirties and that ended his playing days.

 

My grandfather died when I was two, and so I never got to talk to him about his playing days. Recently, my grandmother found an old picture of him in uniform. It appears that it was cut from another photo, but I did make out the name "Danville" across the uniform.

 

I've learned there was a Danville team in Illinois during 1922-1932 in the Three_I League. I also know that Danville, VA has had a minor league team, but I don't know yet if there was a team during the time he was playing ball.

 

I'm trying to learn all I can and see if I can trace down some info about him and maybe the players he played with. If any of you know some sources I could look in, I'd appreciate it.

 

The only major leaguer I know he played with was Joe Adcock. There may be others, but I'm still trying to find out information.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The Baseball Cube lists a couple of inactive Danville minor league teams, but on the brief alumni list, only a couple of the players listed were not born in the 1970s. The oldest 2 were born in the mid 30s.

[LeftCoastCubFan]

If you haven't already, you may want to look at these links. There doesn't appear to be any individual stats for that era though.

 

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/afas/three-i_league.htm

 

http://www.three-eye.com/

 

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/submit/Kemp_Bill_Steinbacher1.stm

 

http://lotus.pico.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=808&node_id=93927

 

the last one has a link for the Danville Veterans, but nothing is on the page. It says it's under constuction.