Martinsville Manufacturers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Brown finishing last that season before

finishing last that season before rebranding as the Ironton Forgers in 1912

a brick grandstand on Madison's east side that had become the first sports facility in Wisconsin with electric lights when floodlights were installed in 1931

It's not clear what the team's moniker was a reference to

as back then leagues would play two halves and crown first and second half champs

Martinsville Manufacturers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Brown finishing last that season beforeThe Martinsville Manufacturers took their name from the city's textile mills, which produced towels for much of the early twentieth century. The team joined the Class D Bi State League at its founding in 1934, a circuit built around mill towns along the North Carolina Virginia border. In that inaugural season, player manager Jimmy Sanders hit . 423, the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year, though Martinsville lost the