Kinston Eagles Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:S • Fabric weight: 8

• Fabric weight: 8

In the Eastern Illinois League

000 fans per season

The Western Association (Class C) covered Kansas

Their name was derived from the Forked Deer River System located in west Tennessee

Kinston Eagles Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:S • Fabric weight: 8The Eagles name dates back to 1925, when Kinston fielded its first professional team in the Virginia League. A 1920s incarnation featured a young catcher named Rick Ferrell, who went on to a long major league career and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984, the only former Kinston player so honored. The Eagles bounced between several Class D leagues before and after the Great Depression, winning the Coastal Plain League title in 1935