Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Royal spent time with Winston-Salem before

spent time with Winston-Salem before a sore arm cut his career short

the Hoppers folded when the KITTY League shut down in 1955

citing financial losses in Harrisburg

who played in Paducah in 1904 before a major league career with Cleveland and the Federal League’s Brooklyn Tip-Tops

a two-time MLB All-Star and World Series champion

Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Royal spent time with Winston-Salem beforeOn April 22, 1959, a nineteen year old infielder making his professional debut went 1 for 4 with a run scoring single for the Raleigh Capitals. His name was barely known to sportswriters at the time, who occasionally got it wrong in print, but Carl Yastrzemski would go on to a 23 year Hall of Fame career with the Boston Red Sox, winning the Triple Crown in 1967. Yastrzemski hit . 377 for the Capitals in 1959, leading the Carolina League in hits,