Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina covington blue sox The franchise saved its best

The franchise saved its best for last

and finally the Suns

and professional baseball's presence there in the mid-1950s reflected a city that had rebuilt and endured rather than one at the height of its power

first competing in the Mountain States League (1948–1954) and later in the Appalachian League (1961–1962)

The Missions name itself has deep baseball roots in the region

Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina covington blue sox The franchise saved its bestThe Leaksville Draper Spray Triplets were a Class D team representing three adjacent North Carolina towns in Rockingham County, all later consolidated into the single city of Eden. They were the most durable franchise in the Bi State League's nine year run, the only club to field a team in every season from 1934 through 1942. The name was functional: Leaksville, Draper, and Spray shared the same industrial economy of textile mills and tobacco