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The Lodge & Shipley Baseball Club was a top amateur team in Cincinnati’s Brendamour Saturday League during the 1910s

Wilson's pedigree as a baseball town runs deep: more than 100 players who passed through Fleming Stadium over the decades went on to play in the major leagues

played a single season in the Georgia-Florida League in 1942 as a wartime addition to round out the circuit

then fell in the postseason semifinals

The team played their home games in Richmond

Natchez Pilgrims T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Mississippi Dawson Springs Resorters The Lodge & Shipley BaseballThe Natchez Pilgrims, based in Natchez, Mississippi, were one of the few franchises in the predominantly Louisiana circuit to represent another state, and they came to Natchez by an unusual route. The 1940 franchise began the season in Houma, Louisiana, as the Houma Buccaneers, before that team's poor attendance prompted owner Carlos Moore to relocate the club on June 27, finishing the year across the state line as the Pilgrims. Natchez returned with