Mayodan Millers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Maroon not the leaf itself

not the leaf itself

making San Jose's Missions part of a long tradition of mission-belt baseball naming

returned for one season in the Tri-State League in 1947

The Muskogee Oilers

as big league clubs trimmed farm systems that had once reached into hundreds of American towns

Mayodan Millers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Maroon not the leaf itselfThe Mayodan Millers, based in Mayodan, North Carolina, fielded a Bi State League team under four different names across eight seasons in a small Rockingham County mill town on the Mayo River. The franchise went by the Senators in 1934 and 1937, the Mills in 1935, the Orphans in 1936 (finishing 35 83, last place), and settled on the Millers from 1938 through 1941. The various nicknames reflect the town's textile mill character; the Millers name stuck