High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural where the Helena Seaporters had

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

three consecutive titles to close out the league's existence

with a wartime pause from 1943 through 1945

playing home games at Bourbon County Park

The Waterville Baseball Club was a minor league baseball team that played out of Waterville

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural where the Helena Seaporters hadThomasville 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.