Danville Leafs Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Forest Green becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox

becoming the Winston-Salem Red Sox for the next 22 years

played two seasons in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League in 1916 and 1917 before the circuit shut down for World War I

The Central League held no postseason at the time

Baseball first arrived in 1897 with a Central League team

the league’s final season

Danville Leafs Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia Color:Forest Green becoming the Winston-Salem Red SoxThe Danville Leafs took their name in 1925, a nod to the tobacco leaf markets that built the city, after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905. A new Leafs club reformed in 1934 in the Class D Bi State League (sometimes billed as the Danville Schoolfield Leafs), then joined the Carolina League at its founding in 1945 and played there continuously through 1958. The Leafs were one of the league's most successful early