Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL more than 50 leagues and

more than 50 leagues and nearly 500 clubs operated across the country

that played in the Mountain State League in 1937 and 1938

when they led the league before it folded mid-season

both Class D circuits in the mountain region

the team became the Harlan Yankees

Raleigh Capitals T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:5XL more than 50 leagues andOn 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,