Bloomington Bloomers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois all teams winning the league championship that

winning the league championship that same year with an 86-51 record while affiliated with the Philadelphia Athletics

When novelist Douglass Wallop needed a heartland hometown for the protagonist of his 1954 novel "Damn Yankees

and from 1946 to 1955

and was named the league's Player of the Year

before the league folded at the end of the season

Bloomington Bloomers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois all teams winning the league championship thatThe Bloomington Bloomers, hailing from Bloomington, Illinois, were a long standing team in the Iowa Indiana Illinois or Three I League during the early 20th century. The Bloomers started play in 1903 and played 29 seasons through 1939. The Bloomers won four league titles in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1939. The 1935 team was player managed by Hall of Famer Burleigh Grimes, who was winding down his playing career. Grimes would move on to coach the Brooklyn