The Lodge & Shipley Baseball Club was a top amateur team in Cincinnati’s Brendamour Saturday League during the 1910s
Williamson produced several major leaguers
The Olive Hill Brickies hailed from the small town of Olive Hill
The Blue Sox played in the Maine State League during the 1907 and 1908 seasons
So that's the story of one of the most unusal minor league baseball team names of all time
Harlan Smokies T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Lewiston Cupids The Lodge & Shipley BaseballThe Harlan Smokies were a minor league baseball team from Harlan County, Kentucky, first competing in the Mountain States League (19481954) and later in the Appalachian League (19611962). Harlan, once known as Bloody Harlan for the violent mine wars of the 1930s, had settled by 1948, and the Smokies became a welcome source of entertainment for a county of 70,000. Early on, they drew nearly 47,000 fans annually to Browning Leonard Park, but declining