Outlaw Carolina Baseball League 1936 - 1938

 
Born and raised in Cliffside, North Carolina, "Pick" Biggerstaff attended Gardner-Webb College. In 1936, he was an outfielder and manager of the 1936 playoff champion Valdese Textiles. He remained active in the minor leagues until joing the service during the Korean Conflict.

Yes, there really was a "Crash" Davis who was born in Georgia, but grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina. He went onto play baseball in high school, the American Legion, Duke University, for the Philadelphia Athletics, and for one summer in 1937, the Gastonia Spinners, a team in the infamous Independent Carolina "Outlaw" Baseball League.

Davis was seventeen at the time and had just completed his freshman year at Duke when he signed up to play with the Spinners.

In school, Glenn Miller was nicknamed "Razzy," and in pro baseball, his teammates called him "Preacher." Born in Rockwell, North Carolina, Miller went onto play baseball, basketball, and football at  Lenoir Rhyne College. After graduation in 1930, he taught school in Landis, North Carolina, and spent his summers playing ball. Miller decided to enter the ministry and graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary in June of 1934 and served two parishes while still playing centerfield in semi-professional baseball.

Born in Virginia, Eric Tipton was an All-American football and baseball star at Duke University. In the summers, he played for the Kannapolis Towelers, including the two years they were in the ICBL "Outlaw" League. Later at Duke University, Tipton led an undefeated Blue Devils team to the Rose Bowl in 1939. (They lost to Southern California 7–3.)  That same year, Tipton signed with the Philadelphia Athletics as an outfielder. He played seven years for the “A’s,” before signing with the Cincinnati Reds.