Greensboro Patriots Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:M The site of Katy Park

The site of Katy Park is now Magnolia Market at the Silos

The name had a parallel history that ran alongside the white professional franchise

Nineteen fifty-six also happened to be the year a nineteen-year-old Lubbock musician named Buddy Holly was beginning to record in earnest

The name refers to the bobolink

Pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant went 19-3

Greensboro Patriots Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:M The site of Katy ParkGreensboro's baseball teams have carried the Patriots name on and off since 1908, a reference to the Revolutionary War's Battle of Guilford Courthouse, fought just outside the city in 1781. The Patriots won Piedmont League championships in 1920 and 1926, and back to back titles in 1932 and 1933 with a young Johnny Mize, later a Hall of Fame first baseman, in the lineup. The Patriots joined the Carolina League at its founding in 1945. The 1945 squad