[1] The first incarnation of the league began and ended the 1939 season with six clubs, but the following year saw the Shelby Nationals and Newton-Conover Twins — one third of the Tar Heel League — drop out on July 19, 1940.
[1] During the postwar boom in minor league baseball, the Tar Heel circuit remained dormant, while the Class D level North Carolina State League resumed play in 1945 and a new Class D circuit, the Western Carolina League, entered organized baseball in 1948.
A large, ten–club circuit, the 1953 THL shed two teams on June 11 and relocated a third.
[2] The 1954 Tar Heel League fielded four teams, before permanently folding 50 games into the season.
Player statistics schedule Newton-Conover and Shelby disbanded July 19.