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Here is more on York County baseball leagues

Here is more on York County baseball leagues

My last month’s York Sunday News column condensed some of the eight-part Gazette and Daily series that ran in the spring of 1940 on the thriving amateur baseball leagues of York County.  Besides an introductory article on the clubs that had come and gone before then, the first four columns

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York Battery Manufacturer Defies Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration

Battery manufacturer Frederick C. Perkins He just ran a small, struggling battery manufacturing plant that he had started from scratch ten years before. Why then was Fred Perkins of West York in the national spotlight, the subject of lengthy sympathetic articles in magazines and newspapers, such as Time and the

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