Americus Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Back to School the club added five former

the club added five former major leaguers who had been effectively blacklisted over drug and alcohol problems

returning professional baseball to the coast for the first time since the Channel Cities Oilers era three decades earlier

282 and making the Three-I All-Star second team despite a hernia-shortened season

eventually

Americus Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Back to School the club added five formerThe 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