Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Owensboro Distillers The Rice Birds disbanded mid-season

The Rice Birds disbanded mid-season on July 23

Preferring life on the West Coast

and again in 1940

About the shirt from the manufacturer:

welding San Jose to Sox and playing two seasons as the JoSox

Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Owensboro Distillers The Rice Birds disbanded mid-seasonMount 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