The Southeastern League was the name of three baseball circuits in minor league baseball which operated in the Southeastern and South Central United States. Two of these leagues were associated with organized baseball; the third and most recent incarnation was an independent league that operated for two seasons in 2002–03.
The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian and east of the antimeridian. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere.
James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball from 1932 to 1949. He played 12 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics.
The meridian 100° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
Vernon Sanders "Vern" Law is an American former baseball pitcher who played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played in 1950–51 and 1954–67. He batted and threw right-handed and was listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and 195 pounds (88 kg).
Harry M. Steinfeldt was an American professional baseball player. A third baseman, Steinfeldt played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, and Boston Rustlers. He batted and threw right-handed.
Dexter Keith McCleon is a former American football safety who played in the National Football League. He played for the St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs, and Houston Texans in his ten-year career that started in 1997. In addition to his career in the NFL, McCleon was a volunteer assistant football coach at Meridian High School in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi.
Donald Eric McNair was a Major League Baseball shortstop from 1929 to 1942. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Chicago White Sox. McNair became an everyday player with Philadelphia in 1932, and he led the league in doubles that season. After his playing days, McNair had brief tenures as a minor-league manager and as a baseball scout. He died of heart problems a month before his 40th birthday.
Daniel Curren Clark was a backup infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played between 1922 and 1927 for the Detroit Tigers (1922), Boston Red Sox (1924) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927). Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 167 lb., Clark batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
Meridian High School is a high school located one mile west of Daykin, Nebraska, United States. It is a consolidated school with kindergarten through twelfth grade, serving the nearby towns of Daykin, Tobias, Western, and Alexandria.
Joshua M. Devore, was a professional baseball player who played outfielder in the major leagues from 1908–1914. He would play for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants, and Boston Braves.
Frank Watts Baker is a former Major League Baseball shortstop. Baker attended school at the University of Southern Mississippi and was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 2nd round of the 1967 MLB draft.
The Meridian Mets were a Mississippi State League (1921) and Cotton States League baseball team based in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. Multiple major leaguers played for the team.
McNeil "Doby" Bartling was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as head football coach at Vanderbilt University from 1944 to 1945 and at Millsaps College from 1946 to 1950, compiling a career college football record of 24–18–2. Bartling was also the head basketball coach at Millsaps from 1946 to 1951, tallying a mark of 25–63, and the head baseball coach at the school from 1947 to 1949, amassing a record of 15–31. Bartling played football as a quarterback at the University of Mississippi. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1977. Bartling came to Vanderbilt in 1943 as an assistant coach after coaching at Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi.
The Safeco Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in the Seattle area, sponsored by Safeco Insurance. It was played 18 times, from 1982 to 1999, at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent, Washington, usually in mid-September, the week following the Safeway Classic in Portland.
McKenzie Corey Dickerson is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies from 2013 through 2015 and the Tampa Bay Rays in 2016 and 2017. Dickerson was an MLB All-Star in 2017.
The Mississippi State League was a professional, Class-D minor baseball league that played in 1921.
Christopher Michael Curry is an American college baseball coach and former catcher. Curry is the head coach of the Little Rock Trojans baseball team.
