Editing Frederick Keys (section)

=== Early professional baseball in Frederick ===
Frederick was one of the founding members of the [[Blue Ridge League]], which existed from 1915 to 1930.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blue Ridge League|url=http://www.blueridgeleague.org|publisher=Boys of the Blue Ridge, 2014|access-date=2014-09-06}}</ref> The team, which went by the names of Hustlers, Champs and Warriors, won league championships in 1915 and 1921. Games were played at the Frederick Fairgrounds until 1924 when [[McCurdy Field]] was built. With the collapse of the Blue Ridge League in 1931, it would be several decades before professional baseball returned to Frederick.

Frederick players from this era who were major leaguers:
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* [[Clyde Barnhart]]: 1915, 1916, 1917
* [[Tom Connolly (third baseman)|Tom Connolly]]: 1915
* [[Bill Lamar]]: 1915
* [[Leo Meyer (baseball)|Leo Meyer]]: 1916
* [[Tom Crooke]]: 1917
* [[Clarence Blethen]]: 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923
* [[Ray Gardner (baseball)|Ray Gardner]]: 1920, 1922, 1923, 1925
* [[Ray Hartranft]]: 1920
* [[Duke Sedgwick]]: 1922
* [[Jim Keesey]]: 1923
* [[Norm McNeil]]: 1923
* [[Bobby Schang]]: 1923
* [[Chick Fullis]]: 1924, 1925, 1926
* [[Karl Kolseth]]: 1924
* [[Bill Hohman]]: 1924
* [[Rollie Hemsley]]: 1925, 1926, 1927
* [[Larry Boerner]]:1926
* [[Jimmie DeShong]]:1928
* [[Joe Vosmik]]:  1929
* [[Milt Galatzer]]: 1930
* [[Bill Perrin]]: 1930
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