Thomasville Tomcats Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black Frank Stuart of Arvin Street

Frank Stuart of Arvin Street was first to submit the winning name and collected a season's pass to all home games for it

The Nacogdoches Cogs were a minor league baseball team that played one season in the East Texas League in 1916

Redlegs (1955-56)

and the Gulf setting gave the franchise a coastal character that distinguished it from the inland Texas cities sharing the league

Thomasville Tomcats Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black Frank Stuart of Arvin StreetThe Thomasville Tomcats, based in Thomasville, Georgia, played the 1952 season as an independent team with no major league affiliation, unusual for the GFL, where most clubs had working agreements with big league organizations. The Tomcats were actually the Americus Rebels franchise relocated from Americus, operated under a group of New York investors led by general manager Gardner "Joe" Landon and drawing players from multiple organizations. They