Rockford Forest Citys - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt cleveland beside a cartoon portrait of

beside a cartoon portrait of Phil Connors in a gray herringbone coat and yellow scarf holding a microphone

Summer evenings belonged to baseball

Console art inspired by Knight Rider

Cream block serif text reads "BASEBALL CLUB" with smaller cream sans-serif text reading "MISSION

it proved that small-town devotion to baseball ran deep across the Carolina Piedmont

Rockford Forest Citys - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt cleveland beside a cartoon portrait ofRockford's Forest Citys stood among the original founding members of professional baseball's first league, the National Association, in 1871. Playing out of northern Illinois, they represented a small city competing against the great urban clubs of the era. Some teams are remembered for championships, but the Forest Citys are remembered for being there at the very beginning. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League