Tarboro Tars

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).

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

Notable players
Several players with Tarboro also made appearances in Major League Baseball:


 * 1937: Soup Campbell, Snake Henry
 * 1938: Campbell, Henry, Buster Maynard
 * 1939: Bob Allen, Bill Donovan
 * 1940: Hank Schenz, Bill Steinecke
 * 1941: Bob Hooper, Ray Murray, Frankie Zak
 * 1946: —


 * 1947: Otey Clark
 * 1948: Jake Daniel
 * 1949: Joe Antolick, Bob Zick
 * 1950: Antolick, Zick
 * 1951: Eric Mackenzie, Joe Rullo
 * 1952: —

Results by season
† Other sources list the team's 1937 nickname as Serpents, 1940 nickname as Cubs, and A's during 1948–1951. In 1951, Tarboro and the Greenville Robins withdrew from the league in early June.