The Harrisonburg Turks are a
collegiate summer baseball
Collegiate summer baseball leagues are amateur baseball leagues in the United States and Canada featuring players who have attended at least one year of college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility remaining. Generally, they operat ...
team in
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham Cou ...
. They play in the South Division of the
Valley Baseball League
The Valley Baseball League is an National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA and Major League Baseball, MLB-sanctioned collegiate summer baseball, collegiate summer baseball league in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia.
The league was s ...
, a collegiate wooden bat summer league consisting of 11 teams in the state of Virginia. The Turks have been coached and/or owned by Bob Wease for 33 years as of the end of the 2023 season. Wease sold the team to Gerald Harman prior to the start of the 2023 season. The Turks play their home games at
Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park
Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park is a baseball venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. It is home to the James Madison Dukes baseball team of the NCAA Division I Colonial Athletic Association. James Madison University joined th ...
on the campus of
James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public university, public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1908, the institution was renamed in 1938 in honor of the fourth president of the ...
.
Notable alumni
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Scott Cousins
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Roy Corcoran
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Rich Croushore
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Steve Decker
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David Eckstein
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Steve Finley
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Jesse Foppert
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Danny Godby
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Orlando Gonzalez
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Travis Harper
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Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists of new media art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1 ...
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Ron Hodges
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Chris Hoiles
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Mike Hubbard
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Daryl Irvine
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Logan Kensing
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Darren Lewis
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Sean Maloney
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Kirt Manwaring
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Frank Menechino
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Larry Mitchell
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Oscar Múñoz
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Tim Nordbrook
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Talmadge Nunnari
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Brian O'Connor
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Jim Pankovits
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Cliff Pennington
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Juan Pierre
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Greg Pryor
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Jon Rauch
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Billy Sample
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Ryan Shealy
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Doug Strange
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Steve Swisher
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Jeff Tam
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Mo Vaughn
Maurice Samuel Vaughn (born December 15, 1967), nicknamed "the Hit Dog", is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels, and New York Mets from 1991 to 2003. He was a three-time All-St ...
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George Vukovich
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Brian Wolfe
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Jon Zuber
References
External links
TurksValley Baseball League
Amateur baseball teams in Virginia
Valley Baseball League teams
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Baseball teams established in 1915
1915 establishments in Virginia
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