Hutchinson Wheatshockers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas thomasville tomcats But under manager Eddie Kolb

But under manager Eddie Kolb

They struggled on the field

played in the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League from 1954 to 1955 and then in the Midwest League from 1956 through 1967

who went on to a long major league career and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984

Hutchinson Wheatshockers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Kansas thomasville tomcats But under manager Eddie KolbThe Hutchinson Wheatshockers took their name from the harvest practice of stacking cut wheat into upright bundles called shocks to dry in the field, fitting for Hutchinson, Kansas, the city at the heart of the wheat belt. The Wheatshockers' Western League run was brief, eventful, and never once ended a season where it started. The name arrived mid season in 1917, when the St. Joseph franchise relocated to Hutchinson on July 24. The new Wheatshockers