High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:4XL The Live Oaks played the

The Live Oaks played the 1901 season as their only season in baseball

they won the pennant in their inaugural season but lost the playoff final to the Knoxville Smokies

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The Infants nickname is likely from the style of the era where a team with lots of younger players would be named the something like the infants or babes

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:4XL The Live Oaks played theThomasville fielded its first professional team, the Chair Makers, in 1937, a direct nod to the city's furniture manufacturing economy. After stints as the Tommies and the Thomasville Dodgers, the franchise was renamed in 1948 at the suggestion of longtime player manager Jimmy Grudzis, who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville. The result, Hi Toms, stuck.