Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S but the portions would build

but the portions would build a cult following

these clubs were the shared heartbeat of a town's summers

Smaller white text reads "Western Association

but the distressed vintage font apparently makes it official

Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S but the portions would buildBelleville's Stags played Class D ball in the Illinois State League starting in 1947, representing a small town's hunger for professional baseball in the postwar years. Minor league clubs like this one gave returning servicemen and local kids something to believe in on warm summer nights. Southern Illinois never forgot what that diamond meant. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The