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Then came one of the crueler endings in minor league history: after the 1935 title, the Western League contracted from eight teams to six, and the three-time defending champions were simply cut from the league. St. Joseph went without professional baseball for three years before joining the Western Association, where a later Saints-line club employed a young Earl Weaver years before his Hall of Fame managing career.\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\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur crewneck sweatshirts are classics that anyone is sure to recognize. They are thick, durable Gildan brand crews. 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