Des Moines Undertakers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa Crew neck touching off the Texas oil

touching off the Texas oil boom almost overnight and turning the city into one of the great petrochemical refining and shipping centers in the country

a familiar fixture of small-town commerce across the Depression-era South

Port Arthur was an industrial city shaped almost entirely by oil

the Baton Rouge franchise renamed itself the Rebels for its final two years before folding mid-season in June 1957

Des Moines Undertakers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa Crew neck touching off the Texas oilThe Des Moines Undertakers carried the best team name Des Moines, Iowa ever produced, in an era when the city went through names the way most clubs went through pitchers. The club was named the Undertakers for the offseason profession of its manager, Joe Quinn, who ran a mortuary business when he wasn't running a ballclub. Quinn was no ordinary skipper: born in Australia, he was the first Australian ever to play major league baseball, spending 17