Thomasville Tomcats Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black before falling to the Lawton

before falling to the Lawton Giants in the championship finals 4 games to 1

and the Dudes era coincided with the league's most stable stretch before the Pacific Coast League swallowed the region's baseball market in 1903

and their single partial season stood as the city's only professional baseball until the Merced Bears joined the new California League as a charter member in 1941

a former pro catcher who caught for his own club at age 43 and whose wife kept the team's books

but the city's position on Sabine Lake at the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway gave it a waterfront identity that the "Sea Hawks" name captured better than anything oil-related might have

Thomasville Tomcats Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black before falling to the LawtonThe Thomasville Tomcats, based in Thomasville, Georgia, played the 1952 season as an independent team with no major league affiliation, unusual for the GFL, where most clubs had working agreements with big league organizations. The Tomcats were actually the Americus Rebels franchise relocated from Americus, operated under a group of New York investors led by general manager Gardner "Joe" Landon and drawing players from multiple organizations. They