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That adjustment pointed toward what came later: 61 home runs for the New York Yankees in 1961

from Princeton

000 fans annually to Browning-Leonard Park

Despite playing in what was then billed as the world’s largest enclosed ballpark

won the 1948 Carolina League title with Hall of Famer Heinie Manush managing in 1945

Danville Leafs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Virginia west virginia That adjustment pointed toward whatThe Danville Leafs took their name in 1925, a nod to the tobacco leaf markets that built the city, after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905. A new Leafs club reformed in 1934 in the Class D Bi State League (sometimes billed as the Danville Schoolfield Leafs), then joined the Carolina League at its founding in 1945 and played there continuously through 1958. The Leafs were one of the league's most successful early