Sanford Spinners T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Kelly for whatever reason the name

for whatever reason the name stuck

though fire destroyed Legion Field's grandstand that first season and forced a mid-year relocation to Jeanerette

fielding teams from the tobacco

The Hutchinson Wheatshockers took their name from the harvest practice of stacking cut wheat into upright bundles called shocks to dry in the field

famously pitching all 21 innings of a game in 1898 and continuing his baseball career into his 50s

Sanford Spinners T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Kelly for whatever reason the nameThe Sanford Spinners took their name from the textile mills that were the economic backbone of Sanford and Lee County, North Carolina, spinning thread and producing cloth through the heart of the Depression and the war years. They played just two seasons in the Bi State League, but the 1941 championship is the franchise's story: entering the playoffs in fourth place at 58 54, the Spinners beat the Martinsville Manufacturers in a seven game semifinal