South Boston Wrappers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia santa barbara saints The Wrappers name was tobacco-specific:

The Wrappers name was tobacco-specific: wrapper leaf is the high-grade outer tobacco used to roll cigars

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

and pitcher Randy Jones appeared in Alexandria in 1972 and 1973 before winning the 1976 NL Cy Young Award with San Diego

Originally the Lexington Bees

a company town built almost entirely around the Henry County furniture manufacturing industry

South Boston Wrappers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia santa barbara saints The Wrappers name was tobacco-specific:South 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