High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural The Belfast Pastimes played only

The Belfast Pastimes played only one season as a minor league baseball team

finishing 67–58 before the league folded

In the late 1940s and early 1950s

playing home games at Bringhurst Field from 1934 through the circuit's final year in 1957

playing home games at Bourbon County Park

High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Color:Natural The Belfast Pastimes played onlyThomasville fielded its first professional team, the Chair Makers, in 1937, a direct nod to the city's furniture manufacturing economy. After stints as the Tommies and the Thomasville Dodgers, the franchise was renamed in 1948 at the suggestion of longtime player manager Jimmy Grudzis, who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville. The result, Hi Toms, stuck.