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The Harlan Smokies were a minor league baseball team from Harlan County
which resulted in the 1960 Davenport Braves joining the newly organized Midwest League
Their brief existence came during a postwar boom when professional baseball rapidly expanded into small towns across America
The front office had genuine baseball royalty
Waycross Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:3XL What happened next is theThe Waycross Bears, based in Waycross, Georgia, were the Georgia Florida League's dominant franchise, winning five championships across their run from 1939 through 1955: 1940, 1942, 1948, 1949, and 1951. Waycross sat at the northern edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia, and the Bears drew the league's highest single season attendance in 1939 at 85,566 fans. Baseball in Waycross long predated the Bears. In the 1920s, Shoeless Joe