Henderson Hens T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Hopkinsville Hoppers Huntington’s teams in the league

Huntington’s teams in the league frequently changed names

The Bengals were part of a wave of small-town teams in the first half of the 19th cenutry as baseball became America’s pastime

and by May

and after the Mountain State League folded

Their name comes from the timber industry that experienced a boom in Lufkin in the late 1800s and Lufkin's location between Davy Crockett National Forest and Angelina National Forest

Henderson Hens T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Hopkinsville Hoppers Huntington’s teams in the leagueHenderson, Kentucky, located across the river from Evansville, Indiana, fielded Kitty League teams intermittently in the early 20th century. Its first clubs were the Blue Birds (19031904), later renamed the Hens, who debuted in 1905 but folded mid season with a 2947 record. The Hens returned in 1911 when a team from McLeansboro, Illinois, relocated to Henderson, and they played five of the next six seasons until 1916. After the Kitty League folded