MOULTRIE — The section of stands where his home runs used to settle came to be known as “Rhyne’s Porch.”

And the slugger of those blasts, Ken Rhyne, who led the Georgia-Florida League in home runs for three straight season 1946-1948 as a member of the Moultrie teams, will be inducted into the Georgia Class D Hall of Fame this weekend.

Rhyne will joined Wilbur Caldwell, Malvern Morgan and John Harmon in the the Hall of Fame during ceremonies at the seventh annual Georgia-Florida/Alabama Minor League Baseball Reunion that will be held here on Friday and Saturday.

The annual reunion is expected to draw some 30 players who played for minor league teams in the Georgia-Florida, Georgia-Alabama, Georgia State, Alabama State and Alabama-Florida leagues.

Moultrie’s Clint Chafin organized the first reunion in 2001 and it continued to meet in Moultrie each year since.

The reunion begins with a golf tournament at 8 a.m. Friday. Players will meet at the Knuck McCrary Complex at 4:30 p.m. Friday for a home run derby.

Attendees will meet for dinner at 7 p.m. Friday at The Magnolia Restaurant.

On Saturday, the former players will have lunch at noon the Colquitt County Agricultural Center, followed by a photo session from 1-2 p.m.

The public is invited to meet the former players from 2-4 p.m. at the Ag Building.

Displays will be set up throughout the room and players will discuss their days toiling in the minor leagues.

The annual supper banquet will be held from 5-7 p.m. at the Embers Restaurant.

The guest speaker will be David Chafin, who was an umpire in the Alabama-Florida and Carolina leagues in the 1950s.

Harmon, who was an announcer for the Brunswick teams in the Georgia-Florida League for a number of years, also went on to announce a 32-inning game, the longest in minor league history.

But Rhyne will be the name most familiar to fans of Moultrie minor league baseball.

In 1946, he led the Georgia-Florida League with 22 home runs and 129 runs batted in as the Moultrie Packers finished in second place with a 76-47 record.

The Packers won the league championship the next yar, posting an 85-53 record and drawing 86,757 fans.

And Rhyne was a big reason. He belted 24 home runs and drove in 141 runs, both league highs.

The Moultrie Athletics fell to fifth But Rhyne did his part, again leading the league with 27 home runs.

“He was a big home run hitter,” said Clint Chafin, who has become somewhat of an authority on minor league baseball in Georgia. “And he was a heck of a nice guy too.

“He was the kind of guy who when he walked down the street, people said, ‘There goes Ken Rhyne.”

Chafin said he understood that Rhyne had bad feet, perhaps from injuries suffered during his time in the service during World War II, that hurt his chances to advance through the minor leagues.

“A lot of people couldn’t understand why he didn’t go further,” Chafin said. “He was a fan favorite.”