Peoria Distillers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois Color:Athletic Heather and the Tobs name lives

and the Tobs name lives on today as a summer collegiate team

who played a single season in the Class D Mountain State League in 1938

340 for his BSL career across more than 1

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

The team played their home games in Richmond

Peoria Distillers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois Color:Athletic Heather and the Tobs name livesThe Peoria Distillers were a historic minor league baseball team from Peoria that played from 1891 1917, spending most of their later years in the Three I League. The Distillers won league championships in 1911 and 1916 and were briefly managed by Pants Rowland, who later led the Chicago White Sox to a World Series title in 1917. Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity also played for the team, famously pitching all 21 innings of a game in 1898 and