Martinsville Manufacturers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Size:5XL Mathews went on to hit

Mathews went on to hit 512 career home runs and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978

then became the player pulled from the lineup in favor of 3'7" Eddie Gaedel in one of baseball's most famous publicity stunts while with the St

the franchise became the Charleston Indians for three seasons before professional baseball briefly left the city

giving fans in hundreds of cities and towns their only connection to professional baseball

The town of Clarksville

Martinsville Manufacturers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Size:5XL Mathews went on to hitThe Martinsville Manufacturers took their name from the city's textile mills, which produced towels for much of the early twentieth century. The team joined the Class D Bi State League at its founding in 1934, a circuit built around mill towns along the North Carolina Virginia border. In that inaugural season, player manager Jimmy Sanders hit . 423, the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year, though Martinsville lost the