2002 Moultrie Reunion
The Home Of The Alabama-Florida League
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Clint Chafin has done great things with his Georgia Minor League Reunions. The first reunion occured in 2001 at the Colquitt County Museum, and was a surprising sucess. Clint decided to expand the reunion for 2002 and got great response from a number of Georgia minor league stars. These pictures are from the 2002 Georgia Minor Leagues Reunion held in Moultrie, Ga. Over 50 former minor league stars attended the event, which encouraged Clint to expand the reunion to include the Alabama-Florida Leaguers in the 2003 event.
The participants at the 2002 reunion.
Bobby McGee (seated, left), Elmer Tessin (seated, right) & Paul Eames (back, left).   McGee had a great season at Hazelhurst-Baxley Cardinals (Georgia State League) in 1954 driving in 111 runs and batting .306.  Tessin won 16 games for the 1950 Moultrie Cubs of the Geogia-Florida League, and Eames spent 5 seasons in the Georgia-Florida League, 2 with the Albany Cardinals, 1 with the Thomasville Tomcats, 1 with the Waycross Bears, and 1 with the Tifton Indians.
Tex Young(left) & Milton Wrenn(right).  Young played with the Cordele Indians(Georgia-Florida League), and the  Vidalia-Lyons Twins & Dublin Green Sox of the Georgia State League. Wrenn played with Moultrie and Tifton of the Georgia-Florida League. Clint Chafin also tells us," Mr. Wrenn, played, as he says,  “Had a cup of coffee”  with the Philly A’s Major League Club. He played for Connie Mack. Mr. Wrenn had a great Minor League career and even started his own Semi-Pro team in Moultrie. He was a Little League Coach for several years in Moultrie".
Left to right: Jack Daughty, Floyd Moser, Paul Eames (standing), and Hank Spain.  Moser played most of his ball in Class D Carolina leagues, and Spain spent two seasons with the  Cordele A's of the Georgia-Florida League.
Bill Kivett (left) Signs bats at the reunion.  Bill played in the late forties and early fifties, including a season in the Georgia-Florida League at Moutrie, Georgia, and a year as a member of the  Selma Cloverleafs of the Southeastern League
 PLAYER Alabama-Florida League Georgia-Alabama League  Georgia-Florida League Georgia State League
Adams, Dizzy 1947 Geneva 1948-49, 1951 LaGrange    
Arroyo, Blas    1948, 1950 Carrollton    
Bass, Danny 1950 Geneva   1950 Albany  
Bledsoe, Billy     1949-50 Valdosta 1953 Thomasville  
Bracewell, Justin        
Caldwell, W. R.       1949-53 Eastman, 1955 Douglass, 1956 Dublin
Clements, Sonny   1949 Tallahassee    
Cobb, Neal 1948-49 Geneva, 1950 Dothan, 1953, 1956-57 Ft. Walton 1954-55 Crestview      
Crouch, Les   1947-48 Cordele   1953 Douglas 1953 Statesboro
Daugherty, Jack   1946 Newnan    
Dobbins, Mayes       1950 Eastman 1952-54 Vidalia
Eames, Paul     1950-51 Albany 1952 Thomasville, 1954 Waycross, 1955 Tifton  
Faust, Floyd   1953-54 Brunswick  
Griffen, Edsel   1947-48 LaGrange    
Gilbert, Phil       1951 Hazelhurst Baxley, 1952 Eastman, 1954-55 Vidalia
Jim Harp       1949-51, 1953 Eastman, 1952 Vidalia
Hegwood, Bob        
Heft, Arnold     1938 Thomasville  
Herrington, George     1951 Waycross  
Hartness, Ed     1938-39 Americus, 1953-54 Tifton 1949-50 Eastman
Kavanage, Chester        
Kebler, Steve     1958 Valdosta 1956 Thompson
Kivett, Bill     1956 Moultrie  
Kossuth, Otto     1950 Moultrie  
Loudermilk, Joey       1950-51 Eastman
Markham, Ken     1946-47 Thomasville  
McGhee, Bobby       1954 Hazelhurst/ Baxley
Mink, Deanne     1952 Valdosta, 1954 Thomasville  
Moser, Floyd        
Ploszaj, Chester       1951-52 Hazelhurst / Baxley
Proctor, Thomas     1954-55 Albany 1955 Hazelhurst / Baxley
Raulerson, Harry     1946, 1948-51 Waycross  
Rice, Rollie 1957 Panama City   1952, 1956 Albany  
Schmidt, Arthur   1949-50 Newnan    
Sharpless, Logan     1947 Cordele  
Smith, Hal        
Smith, Vic        
Spain, Hank       1949-50 Cordele
Stanton, Hillary 1951-52 Ozark      
Stevenson, Fred   1949 LaGrange    
Strickland, Norris       1947-49 Cordele
Tessin, Elmer       1950 Moultrie
Tyler, Jim       1950 Dublin, 1950-52 Eastman, 1953 Sanderville
Wrenn, Milton     1947, 1949-52 Moultrie, 1950 Tifton  
Zuccarini, Bob 1957 Pensacola   1956 Waycross 1952-53 Hazelhurst / Baxley
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