Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Erie Sailors the Speakers were league champs

the Speakers were league champs with a 65-27 record

In April 1920

Their high water mark came in 1948 when they were champions of the Big State League under manager Jose Rodriguez

and its earlier club arrived in 1905 when the Colorado Springs Millionaires moved south mid-season

When baseball resumed in 1946

Mount Airy Graniteers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Erie Sailors the Speakers were league champsMount Airy, North Carolina, sits on one of the largest open face granite deposits in the world, and its quarrying industry has supplied building stone across the eastern United States since the 1880s. The baseball team adopted the Graniteers name in 1934 as a direct reference to that industry, ran as the Mount Airy Reds from 1935 through 1937, then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941. Gene Handley, playing for the 1936 Reds, batted . 403