Fayetteville Highlanders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Seasonal Picks and went by Mission Bells

and went by Mission Bells in its first seasons before settling on Mission Reds by 1928

Despite drawing 61

losing a hard-fought seven-game series to McAlester

and Clarksville

Fayetteville Highlanders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Seasonal Picks and went by Mission BellsThe Highlanders name first appeared in Fayetteville in 1909, and one of its earliest stars was Jim Thorpe, the future Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Famer, who played for the team in 1910. Thorpe's stint in minor league baseball would later cost him those Olympic medals, since accepting pay to play violated the amateur rules of the time, though they were posthumously restored in 2022. The Highlanders name returned in 1953 when the