Ionia/Jackson Mayors

The Ionia Mayors and Jackson Mayors, based in Ionia and Jackson, Michigan, shared the same nickname during the Class B Central League's brief early-1920s run. Jackson fielded a Mayors club for the 1921 season only. Ionia carried the Mayors name for both 1921 and 1922.

The two clubs joined a Central League that had gone heavily Michigan by the early 1920s: the Kalamazoo Celery Pickers were already in the league, and the Lansing Senators joined around the same time as the Mayors clubs.

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.

The Central League itself was a Class B circuit that ran, often sporadically, from 1903 into the 1930s (with a later 1948-51 revival), fielding teams mostly from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.