High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Sand reaching the playoff semifinals in

reaching the playoff semifinals in 1941 before falling to the Alexandria Aces four games to one

based in Marion

originally starting as the Williamson Colts before changing their name in 1939

there is a summer college league team that has revived the Railroaders name

His brief but historic stint symbolized an important step in league history

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Sand reaching the playoff semifinals 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.