Fayetteville Highlanders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Seasonal Picks The name disappeared when professional

The name disappeared when professional baseball left Des Moines after the 1937 season

and Clarksville

when the Ventura County Gulls played the 1986 season at Ventura College

Despite drawing 61

Fayetteville Highlanders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Seasonal Picks The name disappeared when professionalThe Highlanders name first appeared in Fayetteville in 1909, and one of its earliest stars was Jim Thorpe, the future Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Famer, who played for the team in 1910. Thorpe's stint in minor league baseball would later cost him those Olympic medals, since accepting pay to play violated the amateur rules of the time, though they were posthumously restored in 2022. The Highlanders name returned in 1953 when the