Marion Marauders

The Marion Marauders were a Class D Minor League baseball team based in Marion, North Carolina.

Their most successful season was in 1953, when they won the Tar Heel League regular season, and saw their star pitcher Kelly Jack Swift go 30–7 with a 2.54 ERA, winning the pitching Triple Crown.

Swift still remains the last 30-game winner in Minor League baseball history.

[1] The team folded along with the rest of the Tar Heel League on June 21, 1954.

This article about a baseball team in North Carolina is a stub.

Pitcher Kelly Jack Swift of the Marion Marauders from a July 24, 1953 article in the Asheville (N.C.) Times