Ashland Fruit Company Baseball Team

The Ashland Fruit Company baseball team was an independent team that played various clubs around eastern and central Kentucky during the early 1930s. At the time, some teams were sponsored by, or made up of employees of, the company they played for, and the Ashland Fruit Company team was no exception. We saw the team referred to as the banana peddlers in a 1930 newspaper article, so it seemed fitting to put a banana on their logo.

It doesn't appear that the Ashland Fruit Company team was part of any league, playing a mostly independent schedule. They did play some teams from the Eastern Kentucky League of the time, including the Olive Hill Brickies and the Ashland National Guard. From what we can tell, the Fruit Company itself existed until at least 1950.