Des Moines Undertakers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa clarksville cats and though the identity lasted

and though the identity lasted just one season

Between stints as the Wilson Bugs in the Virginia League during the 1920s and a run in the Coastal Plain League starting in 1939

led the league in batting average (

the nearly 450-mile historic trail stretching northeast toward Nashville

• Stitched seams with sublimated logo and pinstripe design

Des Moines Undertakers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa clarksville cats and though the identity lastedThe Des Moines Undertakers carried the best team name Des Moines, Iowa ever produced, in an era when the city went through names the way most clubs went through pitchers. The club was named the Undertakers for the offseason profession of its manager, Joe Quinn, who ran a mortuary business when he wasn't running a ballclub. Quinn was no ordinary skipper: born in Australia, he was the first Australian ever to play major league baseball, spending 17