Hannibal Mules T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri Beckley Bengals an image this design borrows

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The team played only one season and unfortunately the KITTY League folded during the middle of that season

while reinforced shoulders keep the shirt in shape through repeated washes

They hailed from Marshall

Decades later

Hannibal Mules T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri Beckley Bengals an image this design borrowsThe Hannibal Mules, based in Hannibal, Missouri, played two seasons in the Illinois Indiana Iowa League in 1916 and 1917 before the circuit shut down for World War I. The Mules were part of a geographic expansion that brought the league across the Mississippi into Missouri, one of several non Illinois Indiana Iowa clubs that joined the Three I as the league's founding era franchises contracted. The name fit the city's working identity: Hannibal was a