Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:2XL minor league baseball left the

minor league baseball left the Charleston-Mattoon area and has not returned

and neighboring states

"Hubbers" came from Lubbock's self-styled identity as the "Hub of the Plains

and Oklahoma

and then played a season each in the Cotton States League and the Lone Star League

Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Size:2XL minor league baseball left theThe 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