High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Neck Labels the Orphans existed for only

the Orphans existed for only a single season before folding

The pre-war circuit reached its tentacles into places like this not through proximity but through baseball's hunger for cities wherever someone would build a grandstand and sell a ticket

Unfortunately the Red Peppers only last two seasons

The team fared worse in 1948

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Neck Labels the Orphans existed for onlyThomasville fielded its first professional team, the Chair Makers, in 1937, a direct nod to the city's furniture manufacturing economy. After stints as the Tommies and the Thomasville Dodgers, the franchise was renamed in 1948 at the suggestion of longtime player manager Jimmy Grudzis, who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville. The result, Hi Toms, stuck.