Omaha Crickets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Size:2XL Their unique name comes from

Their unique name comes from a newspaper reporter who wrote in 1895 that when the Longview team went to San Antonio to play the San Antonio Missions the Longview team "ate up" the Missions

The 1947 White Hawks won the Three-I League championship under manager Jack Onslow

and the Wild Roses

and the rest is history

Omaha Crickets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Size:2XL Their unique name comes fromThe Omaha Crickets were two seasons in the life of one of the great franchises of the western minors, the charter Western League club of Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha's Western League club had already been the Omahogs, the Rangers, the Rourkes (named for longtime owner manager Billy "Pa" Rourke, who led them to championships in 1904, 1907, and 1917), and the Buffaloes before taking the Crickets name in 1928. Along the way the franchise employed future Hall