Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina covington blue sox The Missions name itself has

The Missions name itself has deep baseball roots in the region

The 1950s were hard years for minor league baseball everywhere

It primarily featured teams from Kentucky

The Santa Cruz Sand Crabs

Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina covington blue sox The Missions name itself hasThe Leaksville Draper Spray Triplets were a Class D team representing three adjacent North Carolina towns in Rockingham County, all later consolidated into the single city of Eden. They were the most durable franchise in the Bi State League's nine year run, the only club to field a team in every season from 1934 through 1942. The name was functional: Leaksville, Draper, and Spray shared the same industrial economy of textile mills and tobacco