Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Crew neck Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter

Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter played his first professional season with Martinsville in 1935

a nineteen-year-old infielder making his professional debut went 1-for-4 with a run-scoring single for the Raleigh Capitals

they hosted what is believed to be the first professional baseball game played in Iowa

arriving after the city's earlier Western League and Western Association teams (the Jayhawks

“Commies” referred to Commodore Stephen Decatur

Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Crew neck Hall of Famer Enos SlaughterOn April 22, 1959, a nineteen year old infielder making his professional debut went 1 for 4 with a run scoring single for the Raleigh Capitals. His name was barely known to sportswriters at the time, who occasionally got it wrong in print, but Carl Yastrzemski would go on to a 23 year Hall of Fame career with the Boston Red Sox, winning the Triple Crown in 1967. Yastrzemski hit . 377 for the Capitals in 1959, leading the Carolina League in hits,