Category: Western Carolinas League

1972 Anderson Giants baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Anderson Giants

April 20, 2022

The Anderson Giants were a South Carolina-based minor league baseball team that played one season in the Class A Western Carolinas League during the summer of 1972. Despite the club’s chosen name, the Anderson Giants were not a farm team of the San Francisco Giants, but rather a so-called “co-op” team made up of low-level prospects loaned out by various Major League organizations. Co-op teams were typically weak performers and the Anderson Giants were no exception, finishing their only season in last place.

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1970 Anderson Senators baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Anderson Senators

March 31, 2022

The Anderson Senators were a Class A farm team of the American League’s Washington Senators based out of Anderson, South Carolina. The team competed in the Western Carolinas League during the summers of 1970 and 1971 and developed four future Major League ballplayers.

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Anderson Mets Western Carolinas League

Anderson Mets

January 8, 2022

The Anderson Mets were a South Carolina-based farm team of the New York Mets that played for just one season during the summer of 1974. Three members of the Anderson Mets eventually advanced to the Major Leagues: pitcher Randy Tate, outfielder Lee Mazzilli and catcher Luis Rosado.

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Thomasville Hi-Toms Western Carolinas League

Thomasville Hi-Toms (1965-1966)

December 24, 2020

The 1965-1966 Hi-Toms of the Western Carolinas League were one of a series of professional baseball clubs to make their home at Finch Field in the small North Carolina furniture-making city of Thomasville (pop. 15,190 in the 1960 census) between 1937 and 1969. Thomasville’s teams played under various names (Chair Makers, Tommies, Dodgers, Royals) over the years, but “Hi-Toms” was the most popular local moniker, used by three separate clubs between 1948 and 1968.

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1978 Shelby Reds baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Shelby Reds

November 17, 2020

The Shelby Reds were a short-lived farm club of the Cincinnati Reds that played the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina, fifty miles west of Charlotte. Though the team played in the lower depths of the minors – the Class A Western Carolinas League – and played just two seasons, the Shelby Reds nevertheless produced a handful of future Major League regulars.

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