Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina winchester hustlers that played in the Appalachian

that played in the Appalachian League (1938–52) and the Mountain States League (1953–54)

then operated without a major league working agreement through the mid-1940s before affiliating with the Chicago Cubs in 1951-52 and the Chicago White Sox in 1953-54

The team switched to a Baltimore Orioles affiliation in 1955

and Hustlers (1911) nicknames

along with Ardmore

Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina winchester hustlers that played in the AppalachianThe 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