Tarboro Tars

Tarboro Tars
Minor league affiliations
ClassClass D
LeagueCoastal Plain League
Major league affiliations
Team
Minor league titles
League titles 1940, 1948
Team data
Name
  • Tarboro Tars (1940, 1946–1948, 1950, 1952)
  • Tarboro A's (1951)
  • Tarboro Athletics (1949)
  • Tarboro Orioles (1941)
  • Tarboro Serpents / Goobers (1939)
  • Tarboro Serpents (1938)
  • Tarboro Combs (1937)
Ballpark
  • Municipal Park (1946–1952)[1]
  • Bryan Park (1937–1941)[2]

Tarboro Tars was the primary name of a minor league baseball team based in Tarboro, North Carolina. The team competed in the Coastal Plain League from 1937 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1952. The team used several other nicknames during its history, and had brief affiliations with the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics of Major League Baseball.

In the team's 12 seasons of play, it qualified for the postseason five times, advanced to the league championship series three times (1937, 1940, and 1948), and won the championship twice (1940 and 1948).[3][4]

Tarboro had previously fielded minor league teams in 1900 and 1901,[5]: 94  and for part of the 1921 season when the Petersburg Goobers relocated to Tarboro from Petersburg, Virginia, in early August.[5]: 281 

  1. ^ "Municipal Park (Field) in Tarboro, NC". StatsCrew.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  2. ^ "Bryan Park in Tarboro, NC". StatsCrew.com. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "Tarboro Annexes Coastal's Finals". The News & Observer. Raleigh, North Carolina. September 15, 1940. p. 14. Retrieved February 25, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Standings". The Charlotte Observer. Charlotte, North Carolina. September 22, 1948. p. 22. Retrieved February 25, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Third ed.). Baseball America. ISBN 978-1932391176.