Lincoln Antelopes Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Color:Sand the Wasps name may well

the Wasps name may well have nodded to The Wasp

with their name reflecting the town’s clothing industry

The Twins took over the franchise of the Springfield (TN) Blanket Makers in the middle of the 1923 season

the same year Casey Stengel debuted against them

first appeared in 1947

Lincoln Antelopes Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Color:Sand the Wasps name may wellThe Lincoln Antelopes of Lincoln, Nebraska are a team where the record books and the newspapers disagree, and we side with the newspapers. Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters, a tidy tribute to the city's namesake. But the Lincoln papers of those seasons tell a different story: day after day, the team was the Antelopes, often shortened to the Lopes, named for the pronghorn that ran the