Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Black defeating Evansville and Decatur during

defeating Evansville and Decatur during their postseason run

before folding mid-season in June 1957

with teams on the island going back to the nineteenth century and a long history in the Texas League

Muskogee had hosted professional baseball under several other names stretching back to 1905

based in New Iberia

Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Black defeating Evansville and Decatur duringOn April 22, 1959, a nineteen year old infielder making his professional debut went 1 for 4 with a run scoring single for the Raleigh Capitals. His name was barely known to sportswriters at the time, who occasionally got it wrong in print, but Carl Yastrzemski would go on to a 23 year Hall of Fame career with the Boston Red Sox, winning the Triple Crown in 1967. Yastrzemski hit . 377 for the Capitals in 1959, leading the Carolina League in hits,