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Our East Texas League collection features 100% original designs based on the history and nicknames of the league's historic teams
The name disappeared when professional baseball left Des Moines after the 1937 season
and Clarksville
struggling badly before the Sherman Twins replaced Seminole in the league for 1952
Fayetteville Highlanders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Seasonal Picks Our East Texas League collectionThe 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
