Danville Leafs Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Forest Green becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox

becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox for the next 22 years

The Central League held no postseason at the time

the other hit from behind with a baseball bat

Originally relocating from Danville as the Danville Speakers

Baseball first arrived in 1897 with a Central League team

Danville Leafs Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Forest Green becoming the Winston-Salem Red SoxThe Danville Leafs took their name in 1925, a nod to the tobacco leaf markets that built the city, after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905. A new Leafs club reformed in 1934 in the Class D Bi State League (sometimes billed as the Danville Schoolfield Leafs), then joined the Carolina League at its founding in 1945 and played there continuously through 1958. The Leafs were one of the league's most successful early