McLeansboro Miners T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Color:Carolina Blue including 1951 Miner Dave Bristol

including 1951 Miner Dave Bristol

While these jerseys have been hard to find since the team folded

and Olive Hill in the 1930s

and Kaws of the 1910s through 1930s) and departing just before the franchise renamed itself the Hawks for the Western League in 1956

Before affiliated baseball arrived

McLeansboro Miners T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Color:Carolina Blue including 1951 Miner Dave BristolMcLeansboro, Illinois, briefly hosted minor league baseball in the early 1900s. The McLeansboro Merchants played in the short lived Southern Illinois League in 1910 before it folded that July. That same year, the KITTY League placed a team in town called the Billikens, who won the second half title with a 4018 record. Renamed the Miners in 1911, the team soon relocated to Henderson, Kentucky, becoming the Henderson Hens since McLeansboro did not allow