Monroe Sports T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Black despite its name

despite its name

Wartime demands on players and resources depleted the league's rosters

a familiar fixture of small-town commerce across the Depression-era South

Cairo’s population has since dwindled to about 1

Monroe Sports T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Color:Black despite its nameThe Monroe Sports, based in Monroe, Louisiana, spent six seasons in the Class C Cotton States League from 1950 through 1955, winning the league championship in that final year by beating the El Dorado Oilers four games to three in the finals. The franchise had arrived in Monroe via relocation from Helena, Arkansas, where the Helena Seaporters had played before moving to Louisiana for 1950. The team's design leans on a dog mascot, a nod to one of the