South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia madison blues and Chuck Tanner

and Chuck Tanner

after a yellow fever epidemic halted the season

The Saints were a Brooklyn Dodgers farm club

making the little San Joaquin Valley city one of the league's great constants

South Boston Wrappers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia madison blues and Chuck TannerSouth 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