Fieldale Towelers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Union City Greyhounds playing home games at Bourbon

playing home games at Bourbon County Park

he returned his contract unsigned with a note that he did not care to live in the East

railroad bypasses

played in the Georgia-Florida League from 1939 through 1942

Independence was a hard way to make a living in the 1950s minors

Fieldale Towelers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Union City Greyhounds playing home games at BourbonThe Fieldale Towelers played three seasons in the Bi State League, from 1934 (as the Fieldale Virginians) through 1936. Fieldale was a company village carved out of Henry County, Virginia, by the Fieldcrest textile concern to house workers at its towel producing mills. The town existed because of one industry; the team's nickname made that explicit. Despite three losing seasons on the field, the 1936 Towelers produced one of the most remarkable