Lubbock Hubbers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas cedar rapids raiders The Bloomington Bloomers

The Bloomington Bloomers

The team played during the early 1900s when small-town baseball leagues flourished across Kentucky and the surrounding region

long before the elbow surgery in 1974 that made his name synonymous with ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction

Yastrzemski hit

before folding with the rest of the league in 1955

Lubbock Hubbers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas cedar rapids raiders The Bloomington BloomersThe Lubbock Hubbers carried the "Hubbers" name for nearly two decades before their single Big State League season in 1956. The franchise had played in the West Texas New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942, resumed after the wartime suspension in 1946, and ran through 1955, thirteen seasons in all under the same name, before shifting to the Big State League. "Hubbers" came from Lubbock's self styled identity as the "Hub of the Plains," a reference to