Lincoln Antelopes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Covington Blue Sox The Gems name briefly returned

The Gems name briefly returned in 1964 before the franchise became the Quincy Cubs

founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit

The Crowley Millers arrived in the Evangeline League in 1951

and returned to the playoffs in 1953 behind Ron Slawski and Bob Norden

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

Lincoln Antelopes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Covington Blue Sox The Gems name briefly returnedThe Lincoln Antelopes of Lincoln, Nebraska are a team where the record books and the newspapers disagree, and we side with the newspapers. Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters, a tidy tribute to the city's namesake. But the Lincoln papers of those seasons tell a different story: day after day, the team was the Antelopes, often shortened to the Lopes, named for the pronghorn that ran the