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The 1918 squad: one of Carolina's earliest baseball teams
the Atlantic Coast Conference lour times.
He retired last season, his 3 1st as a
Carolina baseball coach. Rabb amassed over
500 wins in his career in Chapel Hill and
guided many players to stardom in the ACC.
and a few more to success in the big leagues.
Also, the former coach is the instigator of
the present North Carolina Summer
Collegiate baseball league, and is one of the
major advocates of summer baseball.
The former intramural director and
assistant athletic director said he thought
that eventually the National Collegiate
Athletic Association will see the logic of
scheduling baseball during the summer and
revoke .some of" the restrictions placed on
baseball during the summer.
"During the early days at Carolina, there
were hardly any (scholarship players). Our
grant-in-aid would be a job in Lenoir Dining
Hall and a room in Emerson Stadium. You
couldn't pay a boy to stay in Emerson
Stadium today because everybody's used to
everything being so much nicer"
Most of those players who passed through
R abb's doors went on to careers in baseball,
or in some instances, football.
Danny l albott is Carolina's career leader
in hits with 121 from 1 965-67. and in batting
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average (.357) and second Ntotal doubles.
In a single season. lalbott holds the team
record for hits (51 ) and doubles ( 12). l albott
was first team all-ACC quarterback in 1965.
and led the East to a win in; the East-West
Shrine Came in San Francisco that season.
He was drafted by the Washington
Redskins.
With the need for a new stadium arising
from the imminent demolition of Emerson
to make way for a new student union. Rabb
talked with University off icials and got them
to designate land below Ridge Road on
South Campus as a site for the new field. I he
land had been filled in from dirt from
excavation sites all over campus. ! he left
field line was 310 feet, with a high screen at
the foul pole. More dirt was filled in. and the
line now extends to 336 feet.
Rabb. along with the director of the
Educational foundation. E'rnie Williamson,
contacted Cary C. Boshamer and requested
that he start an endowment fund for the
foundation. Boshamer's assets, which were
considerable, were injected, and the drive lor
a new park was on.
Boshamer also contributed the lights, the
dugouts, and eventually the present stadium
structure. "We drew up some tentative
plans." Rabb said. " and thought we were
going to spend about $150,000. The whole
thing came up to about $600,000."
Downstairs locker facilities and showers
were soon added. Presently, in addition to
the baseball team, the fencing team and
football team has temporary headquarters
below the stands.
I he stadium itself has captured great
moments 1 he first game in the stadium was
a no-hit loss to Maryland: Coach Rabb
scored his 500th win against South Carolina
in Boshamer. and the New York Yankees
came to town last April for an exhibition.
"The game got started through the
interests of an Alumnus. Greg Poole, who
was a real good personal f riend and business
associate of Mr. (George) Steinbrenner. It
was a fine thinn ""
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