Hutchinson Wheatshockers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas madison blues finishing second despite batting champion

finishing second despite batting champion Albert Behrends hitting

calling Ernie Shore Field home

The Stars operated as an independent club without a major league parent

during the circuit's turn-of-the-century revival

competing in the California League circuits of 1899 (as the Beachcombers) and 1908-09 (as the Sand Crabs)

Hutchinson Wheatshockers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas madison blues finishing second despite batting championThe Hutchinson Wheatshockers took their name from the harvest practice of stacking cut wheat into upright bundles called shocks to dry in the field, fitting for Hutchinson, Kansas, the city at the heart of the wheat belt. The Wheatshockers' Western League run was brief, eventful, and never once ended a season where it started. The name arrived mid season in 1917, when the St. Joseph franchise relocated to Hutchinson on July 24. The new Wheatshockers