Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina clay city red devils and pitcher Max Thomas

and pitcher Max Thomas

The white Hubbers refused to sign Black players

to "spud" a well means to begin drilling it

The Big State League folded after that season with only four clubs still operating

It's not clear what the team's moniker was a reference to

Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina clay city red devils and pitcher Max ThomasThe 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