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before departing the league in the mid-1950s

Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters

and rejoined the PCL in 1909 as the Sacts

making the bird and the sport one unified image rather than two separate elements

Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL put up an even biggerMount Airy, North Carolina, sits on one of the largest open face granite deposits in the world, and its quarrying industry has supplied building stone across the eastern United States since the 1880s. The baseball team adopted the Graniteers name in 1934 as a direct reference to that industry, ran as the Mount Airy Reds from 1935 through 1937, then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941. Gene Handley, playing for the 1936 Reds, batted . 403