Martinsville Manufacturers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Brown becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox

becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox for the next 22 years

34 ERA before a midseason promotion to Class A Beaumont and then a major league debut with the Detroit Tigers that same September

Dubs (1906-15)

finishing last in the six-team league both years

which still exists as a public park today

Martinsville Manufacturers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Brown becoming the Winston-Salem Red SoxThe Martinsville Manufacturers took their name from the city's textile mills, which produced towels for much of the early twentieth century. The team joined the Class D Bi State League at its founding in 1934, a circuit built around mill towns along the North Carolina Virginia border. In that inaugural season, player manager Jimmy Sanders hit . 423, the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year, though Martinsville lost the