Bottom Rung: The Deep South Class D Baseball Scrapbook

The story of Class D baseball in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia from the 1930s to the 1960s as experienced by the players, umpires, and fans. Bottom Rung is a scrap book of oral histories, interviews, and photographs that gives the reader a peek at life in the lowest level of professional baseball. This was an era when the Deep South was a hotbed of baseball in numerous classifications, semi-pro leagues, industrial leagues, and town ball. Bottom Rung provides a unique perspective of the struggles, successes, and failures of the men who dreamed of making baseball their life. Some climbed the ladder all the way to the Major Leagues, others never left the Bottom Rung.