The Bi-State League was an American baseball minor league formed in 1934 with teams in Virginia and North Carolina. The league held together for nine seasons, being represented by ten cities from North Carolina and eight from Virginia . Only the Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets , a team that was a combination of those three cities from North Carolina , was able to make the entire nine-year run. This combination also captured the league title in two seasons, 1935 and 1941. The squad from Bassett, Virginia , won four league titles during the span, coming out on top three times in a row, 1936, 1937, 1938 and closing it out with the 1940 pennant before losing in the finals. The league's final season was 1942, as it was not revived after World War II .
5-1478: 1934 Bi-State League Playoff: Danville 4 games, Martinsville 1. 1935 Bi-State League Playoff: Danville 4 games, Bassett 3. 1936 Bi-State League Playoff: Bassett 4 games, Leaksville 2. 1937 Bi-State League schedule Playoff: Bassett 3 games, Danville 1; Martinsville 3 games, Mayodan 2, (one tie). Finals: Bassett 4 games, Martinsville 3. 1938 Bi-State League Playoff: Bassett 3 games, Reidsville 2; Danville 3 games, Mayodan 0. Finals: Bassett 4 games, Danville 2. 1939 Bi-State League Playoff: Leaksville 4 games, Martinsville 1; Danville 4 games, Bassett 3. Finals: Danville 4 games, Leaksville 2. 1940 Bi-State League Playoff: Martinsville 4 games, Danville 2; Bassett 4 games, Mt Airy 1. Finals: Martinsville 4 games, Bassett 3. 1941 Bi-State League Mayodan disbanded July 18. Playoff: Sanford 4 games, Martinsville 3,(one tie); Danville-Schoolfield, 4 games, Leaksville 1. Finals: Sanford 4 games, Danville-Schoolfield 2. 1942 Bi-State League Playoff: Rocky Mount 4 games, Wilson 3; Sanford 4 games, Burlington 1. Finals: Rocky Mount 4 games, Sanford 1. 1934: Danville Leafs 1935: Danville Leafs 1936: Bassett Furniture Makers 1937: Bassett Furniture Makers 1938: Bassett Furniture Makers 1939: Danville-Schoolfield Leafs 1940: Martinsville Manufacturers 1941: Sanford Spinners 1942: Rocky Mount Rocks Danville Leafs The Danville Leafs were
10-624: A long major league career as both a player and coach . In 1953, Leafs' pitcher Ramon Monzant (23-6, 232 strikeouts) won the Carolina League Most Valuable Player award. He went on to spend a few seasons with the Giants. Willie McCovey played first base for the 1956 Danville Leafs. He hit .310 with 29 home runs and 89 rus batted in. One of his teammates that season, outfielder Leon Wagner (.330, 51 home runs, 166 runs batted in), also had an outstanding big league career. The team
15-586: A professional minor league baseball team that played in the city of Danville, Virginia . During 1935–1942, they were also known as the Danville-Schoolfield Leafs . Professional baseball first made its appearance in Danville in 1905 when the town fielded a team, the Tobacconists, in the short-lived Class C Virginia–North Carolina League . Several other professional teams came and went in the town but it
20-608: The North Carolina-Virginia border, for five seasons. The Leafs won pennants in 1934 and 1935. In 1945, another incarnation of the Danville Leafs took the field as members of the newly formed Carolina League . They were a member of the New York Giants ( San Francisco Giants ) farm system. The team existed through the 1958 season. In 1945, Danville pitcher Art Fowler led the league with 23 wins . He went on to have
25-538: Was not until 1925 that the name "Leafs" was first used. The name refers to the famous tobacco leaf markets of the town. The Leafs, who played in the Piedmont League , relocated during the 1926 season, again leaving Danville without professional baseball. A new Leafs team was formed in 1934 as a member of the Class D Bi-State League . The team remained a part of that league, which included teams from towns along both sides of
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