Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina port arthur tarpons named for the team's longtime

named for the team's longtime president and GM

The 1961 season was a steep decline: Des Moines finished last with a 37-93 record while every other team in the league finished at

were a charter member of the KITTY League in 1903 and carried one of the most unusual names in minor league baseball

becoming the Ventura Braves in 1950

carried the name of Louisiana's state bird during the stretches that best defined the franchise's legacy

Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina port arthur tarpons named for the team's longtimeThe Leaksville Draper Spray Triplets were a Class D team representing three adjacent North Carolina towns in Rockingham County, all later consolidated into the single city of Eden. They were the most durable franchise in the Bi State League's nine year run, the only club to field a team in every season from 1934 through 1942. The name was functional: Leaksville, Draper, and Spray shared the same industrial economy of textile mills and tobacco