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The city's 1890s club, the Corn Huskers, won the 1891 Western Association pennant and beat two major league teams in postseason exhibitions; Charles Comiskey then bought the franchise, moved it to St. Paul, and in 1900 moved it again to Chicago, where it became the White Sox. Sioux City's team is, in a very real sense, the ancestor of an American League charter franchise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Packers name returned from 1920 to 1923, though those clubs struggled; the 1923 team went 59-105 and had to be bailed out and finally taken over by the league, despite Eddie Palmer hitting .365 with 62 doubles. The franchise moved to Lincoln for 1924 and became the Links. The stockyards stayed central to the city's baseball life even without a team: when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig brought their barnstorming tour to town in October 1927, ten days after sweeping the World Series, they played at Stockyards Park with fans watching from the tops of rail cars beyond the outfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Western League was a Class A circuit for most of its life, operating from 1900 through 1937 and again from 1947 through 1958, fielding teams across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and later Texas and New Mexico. For its first decade it stood just one step below the major leagues. An earlier league of the same name, which ran from 1885 to 1899, renamed itself the American League in 1900 and lives on today as one half of Major League Baseball.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n    \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetro Baseball Revival celebrates historic baseball teams with unique apparel, honoring their legacy and bringing history to one-of-a-kind clothing with our old school retro baseball tees from defunct Minor League Baseball teams. All of our high quality apparel is designed, printed, and shipped within the USA. This collection features 100% original designs based on the history and nicknames of historic minor league teams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eOur premium lightweight shirts are the hugely popular Bella+Canvas brand 3001 tees. They are much lighter and thinner feeling than a traditional heavyweight tee. They also are more form fitting and feel more snug. 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