Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Erie Sailors sitting on high bluffs above

sitting on high bluffs above the water at the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace

under manager Jack Hendricks

The Jacks briefly resurfaced in 1910 in the Northern Association

and its earlier club arrived in 1905 when the Colorado Springs Millionaires moved south mid-season

Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Erie Sailors sitting on high bluffs aboveMount Airy, North Carolina, sits on one of the largest open face granite deposits in the world, and its quarrying industry has supplied building stone across the eastern United States since the 1880s. The baseball team adopted the Graniteers name in 1934 as a direct reference to that industry, ran as the Mount Airy Reds from 1935 through 1937, then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941. Gene Handley, playing for the 1936 Reds, batted . 403