Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:2XL The Tomcats were actually the

The Tomcats were actually the Americus Rebels franchise relocated from Americus

splitting his time between the New York Giants and the Broadway stage

The Pioneers never won a Big State League pennant across nine seasons but became the circuit's perennial attendance leader

a five-time All-Star pitcher for the Yankees

Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:2XL The Tomcats were actually theMount 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