South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Lawrenceburg Distillers San Francisco's PCL Mission Reds

San Francisco's PCL Mission Reds carried a version of it between the wars

and the South Boston area was deep in the bright-leaf belt where auction warehouses and processing operations defined the local economy

though fire destroyed Legion Field's grandstand that first season and forced a mid-year relocation to Jeanerette

The Joplin Miners were named for the lead and zinc mines of the Tri-State district that made Joplin

a Cherokee who logged a 30-year pro career and pitched for Paducah well into his late 40s

South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Lawrenceburg Distillers San Francisco's PCL Mission RedsSouth Boston, Virginia, a Halifax County tobacco market town on the Roanoke River, entered the Bi State League in 1937 as the South Boston Twins, then adopted the Wrappers name in 1938 as a combined South Boston Halifax franchise before settling as the South Boston Wrappers through 1940. The Wrappers name was tobacco specific: wrapper leaf is the high grade outer tobacco used to roll cigars, distinct from filler, and the South Boston area was deep in