Hannibal Mules Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri kitty league and then joined the Carolina

and then joined the Carolina League in 1948

based in Union City

and the city's amateur teams had carried river-themed names for years before organized ball arrived

6 cm) crown

That franchise still plays in Davenport today as the Quad Cities River Bandits

Hannibal Mules Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri kitty league and then joined the CarolinaThe Hannibal Mules, based in Hannibal, Missouri, played two seasons in the Illinois Indiana Iowa League in 1916 and 1917 before the circuit shut down for World War I. The Mules were part of a geographic expansion that brought the league across the Mississippi into Missouri, one of several non Illinois Indiana Iowa clubs that joined the Three I as the league's founding era franchises contracted. The name fit the city's working identity: Hannibal was a