Kinston Eagles T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:S 000 fans per season

000 fans per season

Notable names include Al Cicotte

reaching the championship series before losing to Brunswick in seven games

with the 1936 championship coming after Paducah refused to finish the deciding series

The Capers name is more a poetic one

Kinston Eagles T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:S 000 fans per seasonThe Eagles name dates back to 1925, when Kinston fielded its first professional team in the Virginia League. A 1920s incarnation featured a young catcher named Rick Ferrell, who went on to a long major league career and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984, the only former Kinston player so honored. The Eagles bounced between several Class D leagues before and after the Great Depression, winning the Coastal Plain League title in 1935