Vintage Kentucky Shirts: Defunct Kentucky Baseball Teams
Kentucky was one of America's great small-town baseball states. From 1903 to 1955 the KITTY League fielded clubs in Owensboro, Paducah, Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Mayfield, and Fulton, while the Blue Grass League brought professional baseball to Lexington, Frankfort, Paris, and Winchester in the early 1900s. Covington even held a Federal League franchise in 1913, one year before that league declared itself a major league. In the coal country of eastern Kentucky, the Mountain States League kept teams playing in Harlan, Hazard, and Ashland into the 1950s.
Nearly all of those Kentucky baseball teams are gone now, but their stories survive in box scores, newspaper archives, and the memories passed down in these towns. Our vintage Kentucky shirts honor them with original designs grounded in real research: the Owensboro Distillers and their barrel mascot, the Paris Bourbonites, the Princeton Infants, the Mayfield Clothiers, and dozens more.
Every team below links to its own collection, where you can read the full history and shop shirts, hoodies, and crewnecks for that club. Find your hometown team, or the one your grandfather used to talk about.
Western & South Central Kentucky
Paducah Chiefs · Mayfield Clothiers · Fulton Chicks · Fulton Lookouts · Owensboro Distillers · Owensboro Oilers · Henderson Hens · Madisonville Miners · Dawson Springs Resorters · Princeton Infants · Hopkinsville Hoppers · Bowling Green Barons
The Bluegrass & Central Kentucky
Lexington Colts · Lexington Parkette Hustlers · Frankfort Lawmakers · Versailles Aristocrats · Nicholasville Nicks · Paris Bourbonites · Paris Mammoths · Cynthiana Cobblers · Winchester Hustlers · Richmond Pioneers · Shelbyville Grays · Lawrenceburg Distillers · Mount Sterling Essex · Owingsville Merchants · Flemingsburg Aces · Clay City Nine · Clay City Red Devils
Northern Kentucky & the Ohio River
Covington Blue Sox · Maysville Rivermen
Eastern Kentucky
Ashland Colonels · Ashland Fruit Company · Olive Hill Brickies · Harlan Smokies · Hazard Bombers · Jenkins Cavaliers
