Vintage New Mexico Shirts: Defunct New Mexico Baseball Teams

New Mexico's professional baseball history runs from coal camps in the northern mountains to the oil and potash towns of the Pecos Valley. In 1912, the year New Mexico became a state, the Dawson Stags took their name from the Stag Canyon coal mines and joined the Rocky Mountain League; Dawson is a ghost town today. Three years later the Las Cruces Farmers became the city's first professional team as charter members of the Rio Grande Association. The 1932 Albuquerque Dons opened their season by beating El Paso 43-15 in winds gusting to 60 miles an hour, and they were in first place when the Arizona-Texas League shut down in July.

Out on the eastern plains, the Roswell Sunshiners were charter members of the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1937, and the Clovis Pioneers carried their name from 1938 to 1956, managed for two seasons by Paul "Daffy" Dean, who co-owned the club with his brother Dizzy. Down the Pecos, the Carlsbad Potashers, named for the potash mines around town, won the Longhorn League championship in their first season, 1953, and Artesia's Numexers, whose name combined "New" and "Mexico," won it in 1954. In 1959 Carlsbad's Gil Carter hit a ball over a light tower at Montgomery Field that is still cited as possibly the longest home run in professional baseball history. Our vintage New Mexico shirts honor these defunct clubs with original designs grounded in real research.

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.