Starting a thread to post historical and other information that’s minors related but of a more general (i.e.non-Astros) nature. First off…
JJ Cooper of Baseball America has a discussion below of how the Vietnam War helped shape the history and development of short season leagues. Basically what it says is that amateur players in the 60’s were faced with a conundrum because almost all the minor leagues back then started their seasons in April and May. In order to play, they couldn’t have gone to classes and thus would possibly lose their student deferments. So over a 4 year period beginning in 1964, the Northwest League, Pioneer League and NY-Penn League all shifted to shorter seasons which began in June so that players could play during the summer and go back to school for the fall/winter semesters.
Born in wartime, died of MLB penny-pinching.