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Blackburn was an [[infielder]] nineteen years ([[1936 in baseball|1936]]–[[1956 in baseball|56]]), all in the minor leagues, losing one year to military service and one year to inactivity. Blackburn drew over 1400 walks in 2016 minor league games. From 1948–56, he had 715 hits and 742 walks in 711 games. He led the 1936 [[KITTY League]] with 124 runs, the 1943 [[American Association (20th century)|American Association]] with 114 runs, and the 1951 KITTY with 116 runs. He also led the 1948 [[Southern Association]] with 36 SB.
Blackburn was briefly a player-manager at the end of the season in 1937 for the [[Peoria Reds]] of the [[Three-I League]]. Blackburn
His [[Kinston Eagles (Coastal Plain League)|Kinston Eagles]] had the best record in the 1952 [[Coastal Plain League (Class D)|Coastal Plain League]], as did the [[Augusta Tigers]] of the [[South Atlantic League (1946–63)|South Atlantic League]] he took over in mid-1958. His teams also lost in the playoffs in 1953 and 1954.
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Blackburn scouted for the [[Detroit Tigers]] into at least the mid-1980s.
He married Jeanne Anderson on October 14, 1939. Together, they had six children: Joan Blackburn, Michael Blackburn, Rebecca Blackburn, Kevin Blackburn, Linda Marie Blackburn, and Timothy Blackburn. He served in the U.S. Army as a TEC 4 during World War II (1945). He died at age 86 at Hillview Retirement Center in Portsmouth, Ohio and is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth, Ohio. His legacy lives on through his contribution to Portsmouth, Ohio's baseball history, and he is memorialized on the Portsmouth, Ohio floodwall.
==Year-by-year managerial record==
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