Sanford Spinners T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Kelly The Fig Growers were Merced's

The Fig Growers were Merced's first professional baseball team

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

another Red Birds alumnus

Named for Bourbon County and its ties to bourbon whiskey

fielding teams from the tobacco

Sanford Spinners T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Kelly The Fig Growers were Merced'sThe 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