Decatur Commies T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois Color:Black According to the Belfast Historical

According to the Belfast Historical Society the terms "at bat" "on deck" and "in the hold/hole" were coined at Pastimes games that summer

we styled our mascot like a stonecutter

"Red" Fowler relocated his Burlington franchise there as a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate

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Tim McCarver had his first professional game as a Kernel

Decatur Commies T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Illinois Color:Black According to the Belfast HistoricalThe Decatur Commodores, nicknamed the Commies, were a long running minor league baseball team from Decatur that played from 1900 1974, primarily in the Three I League, and won league titles in 1928, 1952, 1953, and 1957. In the 1920s, they shared Staley Field with the Decatur Staleys football team, which later became the Chicago Bears. Despite the unusual nickname, Commies referred to Commodore Stephen Decatur, the citys namesake, and notable alumni