St. Joseph Saints T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri pueblo steel workers The "Hub of the Plains"

The "Hub of the Plains" identity was agricultural as much as commercial

377 for the Capitals in 1959

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

The Omaha Crickets were two seasons in the life of one of the great franchises of the western minors

becoming the Mission Reds of Ike Boone and Ox Eckhardt fame

St. Joseph Saints T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri pueblo steel workers The "Hub of the Plains"The Saints were the name St. Joseph, Missouri kept coming back to. The city fielded Saints teams in the Western League across three separate stretches, with an interlude as the Drummers in the 1910s, when Hall of Famer Dazzy Vance passed through on his way up. The most famous Saint of all arrived in 1930, when the club spent a season as a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate and a 20 year old farmhand named Dizzy Dean won 17 games on his way to becoming the