[a] Professional baseball first made its appearance in Danville in 1905 when the town fielded a team, the Tobacconists, in the short-lived Class C Virginia–North Carolina League.
The Leafs, who played in the Piedmont League, relocated during the 1926 season, again leaving Danville without professional baseball.
A new Leafs team was formed in 1934 as a member of the Class D Bi-State League.
In 1945, another incarnation of the Danville Leafs took the field as members of the newly formed Carolina League.
In 1953, Leafs' pitcher Ramon Monzant (23-6, 232 strikeouts) won the Carolina League Most Valuable Player award.