This Hanover Raiders team in 1921 is one of 300 photographs in the recently released book "Hanover Raiders: Minor League Baseball in Hanover, Pennsylvania." Background posts: Adding to baseball timeline: Revs ready for 'second helping', Little school house in Hanover: A Story of Circus and Coal Room, and A journey from Delone Catholic to the Super Bowl.
John Coulson's new book on professional baseball in Hanover in the first part of the 20th century caused some Web commenters to call for the organization of such a minor league team.
"It would be cool to start up this team again in the same league as York (Revolution) and Lancaster (Barnstormers)," one person commented.
The Hanover area wouldn't appear to have the population base to support such a team, and it would take years and years to build a stadium.
But the comment shows that some in town yearn for those days when the Hanover Raiders ruled.
Coulson points the community's memory to those days, as the following Hanover Evening Sun story (7/07/2008) indicates:
Continue reading Before the York Revs came the Hanover Raiders.
