Wilson Tobs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Navy a reference to the Revolutionary

a reference to the Revolutionary War's Battle of Guilford Courthouse

which it finally did in 1987 with the San Bernardino Spirit at the same Perris Hill ballpark grounds where the game had been played decades earlier

the team produced major leaguer Larry Doyle

The league was a semi-pro league and played about 15 games each summer as a short season

Wilson Tobs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Navy a reference to the RevolutionaryThe Tobs name is short for "Tobacconists," a nod to Wilson's standing as one of the world's largest tobacco markets, dating back to the original Wilson Tobacconists of 1908, who won the Eastern Carolina League title in 1909. Between stints as the Wilson Bugs in the Virginia League during the 1920s and a run in the Coastal Plain League starting in 1939, the Tobs name became permanent. The 1941 Tobs went 87 30 to win the Coastal Plain League by more