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.. [probably because] more people began playing softball on Saturdays and Sundays, and in the 80s young black males were no longer gravitating towards baseball - it was pickup and summer league basketball..." that they longed to be involved in.

The old ballfields are silent now," Howard writes on page 190, and some, you can't even tell there ever was a baseball diamond there. Some became housing units, and other baseball fields were turned back into what they were before they were playing fields - farmland.

Sadly," Howard writes on 190, "the ranks of the younger ballplayers have thinned over the past thirty-five years," and many of the great players he remembers have names like Robert "Red" Terrell, Isaiah "Zeke" Walker, Alfred Martin, David Johnson, "Big Red" Strother Jackson, Jr., Vance Brock, and others.

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Howard quotes Kenny Diggs, who played with the Avon a's: "I played for semi-pro teams when I was in the Army in Oklahoma, and none of them could compare to this league (Inter-Co, Tri-Co League)... [and] if we took four people off of Avon's team, three or four off of Wilmington, three of four off Covesville, I would be scared to say we could have competed with any pro-team in that era."

Darrell J. Howard, Sunday Coming: Black Baseball in Virginia (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2002), 4-5.

Charles White in Darrell J. Howard's, Sunday Coming: Black Baseball in Virginia (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2002), 48.

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