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Shortly after the independent Carolina League was formed in 1936, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues began a campaign to destroy it. The NAPBL declared the League "outlaw" and blacklisted its players because their teams were pirating professionally-contracted ballplayers with the lure of higher wages, small-town hero worship and a career off-season. The Forest City Owls, Hickory Rebels, Lenoir Finishers, Shelby "Cee-Cees," and Valdese Textiles are among the cities and teams covered.