Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S Smaller white text reads "Western

Smaller white text reads "Western Association

" with a row of green topiary silhouettes below

They were the game itself for Springfield

but the distressed vintage font apparently makes it official

large red outlined text reads "PIG" above a cartoon pink pig grinning inside a hamburger bun with lettuce and cheese

Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S Smaller white text reads "WesternBelleville's Stags played Class D ball in the Illinois State League starting in 1947, representing a small town's hunger for professional baseball in the postwar years. Minor league clubs like this one gave returning servicemen and local kids something to believe in on warm summer nights. Southern Illinois never forgot what that diamond meant. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The