The Bristol Twins were a Minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 team that operated in the Class D Appalachian League

Appalachian League

The Appalachian League is a Rookie-class minor league that began play in 1937 with one year of inactivity in 1956. From 1937 to 1962, it was a Class D League. Teams are located in the Appalachian regions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee...

 between the and seasons.

The Twins were an affiliate team of the New York Giants

San Francisco Giants

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 (1942-1951), Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates

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 (1952-1953) and New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 (1954-1955) Major League organizations. The team was located in Bristol, Virginia

Bristol, Virginia

Bristol is an independent city in Virginia, United States, bounded by Washington County, Virginia, Bristol, Tennessee, and Sullivan County, Tennessee....

, and played their home games at Shaw Stadium.

In its sixteen years of existence, the Bristol Twins advanced fourteen times to the playoffs series, winning the championship title in the 1942 and 1950 seasons.

Seasons

Year	Aff	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs
1940	n/a	54-60	4th	Larry Merville Tim Murchison Lance Richbourg	Lost in First Round
1941	n/a	72-45	2nd	George Hackett Lee Sherrill	Lost in First Round
1942	n/a	71-36	1st	Hal Gruber	Championship title
1943	NYG	74-35	1st	Hal Gruber	Lost Final Series
1944	NYG	54-53	2nd	Hal Gruber	Lost Final Series
1945	NYG	64-45	1st	Hal Gruber	Lost Final Series
1946	NYG	72-51	2nd	Don Cross	Lost in First Round
1947	NYG	64-62	4th	Charlie Fox	Lost in First Round
1948	NYG	49-72	6th	Rufus Jackson Dale Alexander
1949	NYG	76-41	3rd	Ben Geraghty	Lost Final Series
1950	NYG	74-47	2nd	Ben Geraghty	Championship title
1951	NYG	56-73	5th	Russ Wein
1952	PIT	60-57	2nd	George DeTore	Lost in First Round
1953	PIT	54-72	4th	George DeTore
1954	NYY	65-51	3rd	Walter Lance	Lost in First Round
1955	NYY	63-61	3rd	Dave Madison	Lost in First Round

Fact

• Ron Necciai
  Ron Necciai
  Ronald Andrew Necciai [nec-shy], , is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1952 season...
  
   pitched for Bristol before joining the Pittsburgh Pirates. On May 13, 1952 Necciai struck out
  Strikeout
  In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike-out occurs when a batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters....
  
   27 batters while throwing a 7–0 no-hitter
  No-hitter
  A no-hitter is a baseball game in which one team has no hits. In Major League Baseball, the team must be without hits during the entire game, and the game must be at least nine innings. A pitcher who prevents the opposing team from achieving a hit is said to have "thrown a no-hitter"...
  
   against the Welch Miners
  Welch Miners
  The Welch Miners were a Minor league baseball team based in Welch, West Virginia. The team operated from 1937 through 1942 in the Mountain State League and in the Appalachian League from 1946 to 1955...
  
  . Four of the Welch hitters did reach base, including one runner each via a walk
  Base on balls
  A base on balls is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire calls balls. It is better known as a walk. The base on balls is defined in Section 2.00 of baseball's Official Rules, and further detail is given in 6.08...
  
  , an error
  Error (baseball)
  In baseball statistics, an error is the act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or baserunner to reach one or more additional bases, when such an advance would have been prevented given ordinary effort by the fielder.The term ...
  
  , a hit batsman
  Hit by pitch
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   and a passed ball
  Passed ball
  In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been maintained under his control. When, as a result of this loss of control, the batter or a runner on base advances, the catcher is thereby charged...
  
   charged to Twins' catcher
  Catcher
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   Harry Dunlop
  Harry Dunlop
  Harry Alexander Dunlop is an American former catcher, coach and manager in professional baseball...
  
   on a swinging third strike. This resulted in a four-strikeout ninth inning. In his next start Necciai threw a 24-strikeout two-hitter, posting a 4-0 record with a 0.42 earned run average
  Earned run average
  In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...
  
  and 109 strikeouts in 43 innings of work.