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Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina atlantic city surf among the first Black players

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among the first Black players to appear in the Class D Georgia-Florida League

Hannibal had played ball under organized rules before the Mules

hailing from Dawson Springs

The Patriots won Piedmont League championships in 1920 and 1926

which were cancelled due to a boycott tied to the team's refusal to integrate

Fayetteville Highlanders Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina atlantic city surf among the first Black playersThe 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

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