Americus Pioneers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:2XL The team name referencs Frankfort’s

The team name referencs Frankfort’s status as the state capital and home to Kentucky’s legislature

Despite playing in what was then billed as the world’s largest enclosed ballpark

won the 1938 Evangeline League championship

so we tried to make our mascot embody that spirit

but Bluefield has had an Appalachian League team in all but one season since then

Americus Pioneers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:2XL The team name referencs Frankfort’sThe Americus Pioneers, based in Americus, Georgia, played in the Class D Georgia Florida League from 1939 through 1942. The franchise had first appeared in the league as the Americus Cardinals, a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate, from 1935 through 1938. After the war it returned as the Americus Phillies from 1946 through 1950. Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford, who pitched for the Phillies in 1949, won the National