Danville Speakers

The Danville Speakers hailed from Danville, Illinois, and played in the Triple I League from 1910-1914 and spent one year in the Eastern Illinois League in 1908. In the Eastern Illinois League, the Speakers were league champs with a 65-27 record. Unfortunately, the league disbanded after the 1908 season due to a lack of teams. Upon moving to the Triple I the Speakers didn't have as much success, with their best season coming in 1913 with a 69-68 record. During the 1914 season, the team would move to Moline, Illinois and become the Moline Plowboys. It's not clear what the team's moniker was a reference to, so we thought a old school loud speaker was appropriate. 

The Triple I League was a Class B league that ran from 1901 through 1962 consisting of teams from across Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, and occasionally other midwestern states such as Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. In the 1800s and first half of the 1900s, teams existed in thousands of small towns across the United States, as Americans looked for recreational activities and entertainment in the era before TV.