Parksley Spuds

[3] Parksley was home to a playing field known as the Eastern Shore League Baseball Park.

[4] The rural town of Parksley, which had a population of 607 at the 1920 census, was an unlikely candidate to host a successful baseball team.

[7] The Spuds faced the BRL champions, the Martinsburg Blue Sox, in the Five-State Championship that year.

[5] The Spuds went back to the Five-State Championship in 1924, for which they added the services of future Baseball Hall of Fame member Jimmie Foxx, who had played for the league's Easton Farmers that season.

[3] Foxx hit for a .391 batting average and four home runs in the series, which the Spuds won four games to two.

[11] The Spuds nearly returned to the Five-State Championship in 1925, but the Cambridge Canners finished ahead of them for the Eastern Shore League pennant.