Springfield Senators - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Color:Royal Class D ball brought organized

Class D ball brought organized baseball to a Gulf Coast town still finding its identity

That league bound together border towns across Kentucky

giving agricultural towns a team to rally behind long before television changed everything

Bold distressed white text reads "LOUISVILLE COAL MINERS" below

and some become the place you always come back to

Springfield Senators - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Color:Royal Class D ball brought organizedSpringfield's Senators took the diamond in 1889 as part of the Central Interstate League, bringing organized baseball to downstate Illinois. Before the major leagues dominated the national conversation, clubs like these were the sporting soul of their cities. Springfield, IL lived and breathed that team, and for a brief era, minor league ball was all that mattered. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of