Reidsville Luckies T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina olive hill brickies and played in the Triple

and played in the Triple I League from 1910-1914 and spent one year in the Eastern Illinois League in 1908

based in Lake Charles

with a wartime pause from 1943 through 1945

200 of his own money on new uniforms and put his own name on them in red lettering

Reidsville Luckies T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina olive hill brickies and played in the TripleThe Reidsville Luckies took their name from Lucky Strike cigarettes, manufactured locally by the American Tobacco Company, and even played their home games at a ballpark called Lucky Strike Park. The franchise first played in the Bi State League from 1935 to 1940, returned for one season in the Tri State League in 1947, and then joined the Carolina League in 1948, where they remained through 1954 as the Luckies. Pitcher Steve Ridzik made his