South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:White The team became a Brooklyn

The team became a Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate from 1953 through the Sooner State League's final 1957 season

serving as athletic director for the Fort Worth school system and earning Texas Athletic Director of the Year honors in 1975

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

appeared in ten All-Star games

The Rocky Mount Rocks played just one season in the Bi-State League

South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:White The team became a BrooklynSouth 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