McLeansboro Miners Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Dining they were the Owls in

they were the Owls in 1946

with their name reflecting the town’s clothing industry

fielding teams in every version of the league from 1904 to 1954

fielded Kitty League teams intermittently in the early 20th century

the team became affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers and was renamed the Union City Dodgers

McLeansboro Miners Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Dining they were the Owls inMcLeansboro, 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