High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Neck Labels becoming the Henderson Hens since

becoming the Henderson Hens since McLeansboro did not allow Sunday baseball

Available in an extensive color range

The team fared worse in 1948

and Athletics from 1950 through 1953

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Neck Labels becoming the Henderson Hens sinceThomasville 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.