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 Several players with Tarboro also made appearances in Major League Baseball:
‡ In 1951, Tarboro and the Greenville Robins withdrew from the league in early June.