Beckley Bengals T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Color:Pebble Brown finishing last in the six-team

finishing last in the six-team league both years

especially as the town had become more accessible by road since the railroad’s arrival in 1912

that played in the Class D Mountain State League during the 1941 and 1942 seasons

once known as “Bloody Harlan” for the violent mine wars of the 1930s

Beckley Bengals T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Color:Pebble Brown finishing last in the six-teamThe Beckley Bengals were a minor league baseball team from Beckley, WV, that played in the Mountain State League in 1937 and 1938, winning the league title both years. As a Detroit Tigers affiliate, they produced notable alumni like nine time all star and 1940 MVP Frank McCormick and pitcher Lee Grissom. The Bengals were part of a wave of small town teams in the first half of the 19th cenutry as baseball became Americas pastime. Retro Baseball Revival