High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Sand a local corn starch producer

a local corn starch producer that was one of the city's major employers

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

and after the Rancheros' two seasons the Dodgers name returned from 1964 through 1967

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

played a single season in the Class C Western Association in 1954 at Conoco Park

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Sand a local corn starch producerThomasville 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.