ife is rarely dull in the town of Greenville, home to around 30,000 people about 50 miles northeast of Dallas. In the early 1900s, the bustling community was a major player in the cotton industry. Nearly 40 years later, in 1949, the New York Yankees came to town to play an exhibition match against the minor league Greenville Majors. The Majors won, as documented in a headline that read, “Yanks are beaten by Greenville, 4-3.”
