Thomasville fielded its first professional team
Our design is adapted from the Crushers' original script wordmark found in the team's own game materials
The Distillers won league championships in 1911 and 1916 and were briefly managed by Pants Rowland
the Santa Cruz-area native who began that season with the Sand Crabs before moving on to San Jose and then the Boston Red Sox
The only Hall of Famer ever to wear the uniform was a local: Harry Hooper
Mount Airy Graniteers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Oak Ridge Bombers Thomasville fielded its first professionalMount Airy, North Carolina, sits on one of the largest open face granite deposits in the world, and its quarrying industry has supplied building stone across the eastern United States since the 1880s. The baseball team adopted the Graniteers name in 1934 as a direct reference to that industry, ran as the Mount Airy Reds from 1935 through 1937, then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941. Gene Handley, playing for the 1936 Reds, batted . 403