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Baseball’s youngest pro made here
Fitzgerald’s Joe Reliford part of Statesboro’s pro sports story
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This photo of Joe Louis Reliford in Fitzgerald Pioneers uniform is credited to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.
When Joe Louis Reliford went to bat for the Fitzgerald Pioneers in a Minor League game in Statesboro, Georgia, on July 19, 1952, he stepped into the record books as the youngest person ever to play professional baseball.
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