Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Sale Playing with partial sight in

Playing with partial sight in one eye after a hunting accident

Louis Browns affiliate in 1937 and 1941

The Manufacturers and the Athletics both played at the same Martinsville ballpark

the Chicago White Sox pitcher whose career had been cut short after he lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938

The Port Arthur Sea Hawks

Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Sale Playing with partial sight inThe Highlanders name first appeared in Fayetteville in 1909, and one of its earliest stars was Jim Thorpe, the future Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Famer, who played for the team in 1910. Thorpe's stint in minor league baseball would later cost him those Olympic medals, since accepting pay to play violated the amateur rules of the time, though they were posthumously restored in 2022. The Highlanders name returned in 1953 when the