South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:White 730 winning percentage

730 winning percentage

appeared in ten All-Star games

The city fielded the Sacramento Altas in the league's first incarnation in the 1880s

reducing the league's first campaign from eight teams to six

that played in the Appalachian League (1938–52) and the Mountain States League (1953–54)

South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:White 730 winning percentageSouth Boston, Virginia, a Halifax County tobacco market town on the Roanoke River, entered the Bi State League in 1937 as the South Boston Twins, then adopted the Wrappers name in 1938 as a combined South Boston Halifax franchise before settling as the South Boston Wrappers through 1940. The Wrappers name was tobacco specific: wrapper leaf is the high grade outer tobacco used to roll cigars, distinct from filler, and the South Boston area was deep in