Moline Plowboys

The Moline Plowboys, hailing from Moline, Illinois, were an early 20th century baseball team that played in the Tripe I League and the Mississippi Valley League for a combined 22 seasons. The Plowboys started play in the Triple I League in 1915, where they moved from Danville, Illinois, where they had been the Danville Speakers.

In 1916, they would win the league as second half champs and defeating the Davenport Blue Sox in six games in the final. They would repeat as champs in 1922, then moved to the Mississippi Valley League in 1924, which was a Class D league and a step down from the Class B Triple I. In 1937, they moved back to the Tripe I and immediately won the league, defeating the Clinton Owls in the final. The Plowboys would fold in 1941. 

The team's moniker comes from Moline's tractor industry, which was booming around this time and continues today as Moline is the headquarters for John Deere. 

The Triple I League (also known as the Illinois - Indiana - Iowa 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 late 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 was prominent.