Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons - Pennsylvania - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt pico rivera They were civic identity

They were civic identity

A vintage hand-drawn portrait of Ace Rothstein sits within a downward-pointing chevron

Distressed pale gold serif text reads "MIDWEST" above a woodcut-style pastoral illustration depicting rolling hills

Jimmy Dugan signed up for beer money and accidentally started caring about a right fielder's cutoff throws

Independent baseball clubs were the social glue of remote northern communities

Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons - Pennsylvania - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt pico rivera They were civic identityWilkes Barre's Coal Barons took the field in 1887 as part of the International Association, representing a Pennsylvania mining city that lived and breathed anthracite. Baseball and coal built that town's identity in equal measure. Some clubs are remembered for championships, but the Coal Barons endured as a symbol of working class pride in the Wyoming Valley. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of