When the 1935 baseball season ended, the Boston Red Sox (parent club of the 1935 Hornets) relocated their class B Hornets ball club to Rocky Mount, NC as the new Rocky Mount Red Sox for the 1936 season.

So, with no organized baseball in the Hornets Nest, Charlotte looked to expand in the new "Carolina League", an independent outlaw league that had no affiliation to Major League Baseball, and didn't follow the same rules as organized baseball. 

For the 1936 season, it was a brand new beginning with a brand new Hornets ball club. The President of the new Carolina League Bees was Barron Hinson, and while they would still play at Robbie's Field, things like the roster, logos, and uniforms would be brand new for this brand new ball club.

The Insects star pitcher was Charles Mars "Struttin Bud" Shaney, who was famously known for doctoring the balls he pitched by antics such as coating them with the oil of mustard, or inserting phonographic needles into them, though Shaney denied ever doctoring a single ball. Other players like (left photo) "Alabama" Pitts (former NFL Eagles player and convict) and "Slim" Ingram would play for the '36 Bees.

While night baseball had yet to reach the Major Leagues, it would be a common event in the Carolina League.

Although Charlotte was the only ball club of the eastern towns to have lights, the white color of the Hornets' uniforms would present an issue, as they were somewhat hard to see in the ballpark's lights.

The club would have a few managers throughout the season. Former New York Giants and 1932 Charlotte Hornets player Blackie Carter (right photo) would manage the '36 Bees to a 3-7 record, (as listed in the Forest City Courier on May 21, 1936) before leaving the job on May 17 to return to organized baseball. Charlotte would get a new manager. Another former member of the class B Hornets, Frank "What-a-Man" Packard, who got his nickname by setting numerous batting records on the 1930 Hornets team. But batting wasn't his only talent, Packard was known to be a drinker, knowing where to find every speakeasy in town.

Packard would manage the Hornets until he was fired in August, and went to play organized ball for the Mount Airy Reds, leaving the star pitcher "Bud" Shaney to manage the team.

By then the Bees were beginning to face financial problems, but this didn't stop Shaney from

managing the Hornets to the finals against the Concord Weavers. The Bees defeated Concord,

but lost against the Valdeze Textiles 10-5,  meaning the season was over for Charlotte. The Hornets

would finish the 1936 season with 61 wins and 36 losses.

During the off season, Hornets President Barron Hinson announced that Frank Packard would be manager of the 1937 Hornets, but facing financial problems, the Carolina League club ultimately ended up relocating to Gastonia, NC under the new name "Gastonia Spinners". Frank Packard would later assume half the ownership of the Spinners in their 1937 season, but the team would again relocate, this time to High-Point in 1938.

Charlotte would return to organized baseball in 1937 without Barron Hinson. The 1937 Hornets would return to the Piedmont League, and work out a deal as the class B affiliate of Clark Griffith's Washington Senators.

As for the former Carolina League Charlotte ball club, their time in Hi-Point would come to an end in 1938, when Carolina League directors voted to buy out the ball club. Along with a failed attempt from the Valdeze Textiles to move to Shelby, NC, the Carolina League would downsize to four teams, and eventually disband all together at the end of the season.

In 1982, the former Charlotte Hornets player and manager Frank "What-a-Man" Packard would be named as one of the then six charter members of the Charlotte Baseball Hall of Fame, which included former players like Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, and Hoyt Wilhelm.