Hutchinson Wheatshockers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas thomasville tomcats They struggled on the field

They struggled on the field

who went on to a long major league career and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984

second-highest average in the league

At the peak of the minor league era

affiliated first with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the Milwaukee Braves

Hutchinson Wheatshockers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas thomasville tomcats They struggled on the fieldThe Hutchinson Wheatshockers took their name from the harvest practice of stacking cut wheat into upright bundles called shocks to dry in the field, fitting for Hutchinson, Kansas, the city at the heart of the wheat belt. The Wheatshockers' Western League run was brief, eventful, and never once ended a season where it started. The name arrived mid season in 1917, when the St. Joseph franchise relocated to Hutchinson on July 24. The new Wheatshockers