Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL fielded Kitty League teams intermittently

fielded Kitty League teams intermittently in the early 20th century

The Manufacturers and the Athletics both played at the same Martinsville ballpark

and 55-62 in 1942 as a Chicago Cubs affiliate

after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905

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 fielded Kitty League teams intermittentlyMount 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