Thomasville, North Carolina was home to several minor league baseball teams from 1937–1969. The Thomasville Chair Makers joined the North Carolina State League in 1937 and became the Thomasville Tommies in 1939. They were an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians from 1940–1942. No team was fielded during World War II. The Thomasville Dodgers (an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers) took the field in 1945. Since 1999, a new version of the team has played in the Coastal Plain League as a collegiate summer baseball team.