Major League Baseball Players from York and Adams Counties
Course | Registration opens 5/19/2025 8:00 AM EDT
More than a dozen players from York and Adams counties have played in the major leagues. Barry Sparks will detail the careers of the players. Local players have notched a number of significant achievements. Find out who gave up Ty Cobb''s 3,000th hit; who played for two major league teams in one day; who collected four hits in a World Series game; who was a teammate of Sandy Koufax on the 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers; who won more games than any other southpaw in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals, and much more.
Barry Sparks
Barry Sparks has been a baseball fan for more than sixty years. He is a long-time member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and has written numerous articles about baseball. His articles have appeared in Baseball Digest, Sports Collectors Digest, The National Pastime, The Baseball Research Journal, The Baltimore Sun, The Phillies Report, and many others. He is the author of four books, including The Search for the Next Mickey Mantle: From Tom Tresh to Bryce Harper.