The Goldsboro Goldbugs were an Eastern Carolina League (1929) and Coastal Plain League (1937–1941, 1946–1949) baseball team based in Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States. Don Heffner played for the Goldsboro Goldbugs.[1] The 1928 Goldsboro team won the Eastern Carolina championship playing as the Goldsboro Manufacturers.[2][3]
After changing their moniker, Goldsboro continued minor league baseball play as members of the Class D Coastal Plain League. The Goldsboro Cardinals played in the 1950–1951 seasons as an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. In their final season of play, the Goldsboro Jets concluded the tenure in the Coastal Plain League.[4][5]
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1948 and 1951, he played for the Warsaw Red Sox, Raleigh Capitals, GoldsboroGoldbugs, and Roanoke Rapids Jays. Leo Katkaveck. basketball-reference.com...
played minor league baseball in the offseason in 1948 for the Goldsboro (NC) Goldbugs in the Class D Coastal Plain league. That season Red had a batting...
Plain League as a minor league affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. The GoldsboroGoldbugs (Boston Red Sox affiliate), Greenville Greenies, Kinston Eagles, New...
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D level Coastal Plain League. Williamston joined the Ayden Aces, GoldsboroGoldbugs, Greenville Greenies, Kinston Eagles, New Bern Bears, Snow Hill Billies...
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and 1928, then moved on to the Class D Eastern Carolina League's GoldsboroGoldbugs in 1929, playing and managing there as well. This marked the end of...
downtown New Bern. In 1937, New Bern was joined by the Ayden Aces, GoldsboroGoldbugs, Greenville Greenies, Kinston Eagles, Snow Hill Billies, Tarboro Serpents...
D level Coastal Plain League. Williamston joined the Ayden Aces, GoldsboroGoldbugs, Greenville Greenies, Kinston Eagles, New Bern Bears, Tarboro Combs...
the eight–team Class D level Coastal Plain League. Ayden joined the GoldsboroGoldbugs, Greenville Greenies, Kinston Eagles, New Bern Bears, Snow Hill Billies...
Showstoppers (18 April) Scott Walker (25 April) Jacky (25 April) Bobby Goldsboro (2 May) The Association (9 May) Aretha Franklin (16 May) Sacha Distel...
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