The Tar Heel League was a mid-20th century Class D level professional minor baseball league , based in North Carolina in the United States . It operated during the full seasons of 1939 , 1940 and 1953 , and from the opening of the season through June 21, 1954 .
3-674: The Shelby Colonels were a Tar Heel League (1940), Western Carolina League (1960–1962) and Western Carolinas League (1963) baseball team based in Shelby, North Carolina . They were affiliated with the Washington Senators in 1940, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1961 and the New York Yankees in 1963. Under managers Aaron Robinson and James Adlam, they won the league championship in 1961, despite posting
6-687: A losing record during the regular season. This article about a baseball team in North Carolina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tar Heel League The first incarnation of the league began and ended the 1939 season with six clubs, but the following year saw the Shelby Nationals and Newton-Conover Twins — one third of the Tar Heel League — drop out on July 19, 1940. The entire league then shut down for 1941 and through World War II . During
9-687: The postwar boom in minor league baseball, the Tar Heel circuit remained dormant, while the Class D level North Carolina State League resumed play in 1945 and a new Class D circuit, the Western Carolina League , entered organized baseball in 1948 . When the 1950s brought dwindling attendance to minor league baseball and clubs and leagues began to contract, the North Carolina State and Western Carolina leagues merged into
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