Americus Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Allentown Ambassadors top-hatted cartoon tomcat swinging a

top-hatted cartoon tomcat swinging a bat over the ballpark

The Alton Blues

and from 1946 to 1955

still among the gaudiest stat lines the game has recorded

Americus Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Allentown Ambassadors top-hatted cartoon tomcat swinging aThe Americus Pioneers, based in Americus, Georgia, played in the Class D Georgia Florida League from 1939 through 1942. The franchise had first appeared in the league as the Americus Cardinals, a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate, from 1935 through 1938. After the war it returned as the Americus Phillies from 1946 through 1950. Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford, who pitched for the Phillies in 1949, won the National