Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Owensboro Distillers The name was no invention:

The name was no invention: Fresno was then

and again in 1940

San Jose baseball barely paused

The Victoria Generals of the Texas Collegiate League now play at Riverside Stadium

a company town built almost entirely around the Henry County furniture manufacturing industry

Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Owensboro Distillers The name was no invention:Mount 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