High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural the highest batting average in

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

with a wartime pause from 1943 through 1945

three consecutive titles to close out the league's existence

finishing 67–58 before the league folded

where the Helena Seaporters had played before moving to Louisiana for 1950

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural the highest batting average inThomasville fielded its first professional team, the Chair Makers, in 1937, a direct nod to the city's furniture manufacturing economy. After stints as the Tommies and the Thomasville Dodgers, the franchise was renamed in 1948 at the suggestion of longtime player manager Jimmy Grudzis, who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville. The result, Hi Toms, stuck.