Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina central league The team fared worse in

The team fared worse in 1948

Baton Rouge infielder John Radulovich led the league in batting that year at

a Cherokee who logged a 30-year pro career and pitched for Paducah well into his late 40s

The Quincy Gems played in the Three-I League during the 1910s and again from 1946-1956

The Jets finished 62-76 for sixth place in an eight-team field

Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina central league The team fared worse inThe Highlanders name first appeared in Fayetteville in 1909, and one of its earliest stars was Jim Thorpe, the future Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Famer, who played for the team in 1910. Thorpe's stint in minor league baseball would later cost him those Olympic medals, since accepting pay to play violated the amateur rules of the time, though they were posthumously restored in 2022. The Highlanders name returned in 1953 when the