Raleigh Capitals Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Assembled in the USA They were a St

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They finished 22 games ahead of second-place Waterloo

a seventeen-year-old third baseman named Eddie Mathews arrived at Finch Field and hit

they shared Douglas Park with the Rock Island Independents (an early NFL team) before the franchise eventually folded in 1937

all of whom made significant marks in baseball history

Raleigh Capitals Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Assembled in the USA They were a StOn 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,