Mount Vernon Kings - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt tombstone Arched distressed white text reads

Arched distressed white text reads "GEORGETOWN" across the top

Tuberculosis took his lungs but never once touched his timing

Large vintage script lettering reads "Fliers" with a sweeping cursive swoosh underneath

weathered texture

bound together by nothing more than a ball and a prayer

Mount Vernon Kings - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt tombstone Arched distressed white text readsMount Vernon's Kings took the diamond in 1949 as part of the Class D Southern Illinois League, bringing organized baseball to a proud coal country town. Small market clubs like these were the backbone of the minor league system in postwar America. They gave southern Illinois something to rally around on warm summer nights. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The Details: Arched distressed