Lake Linden Lakers - Michigan - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt three rivers Large decorative red and golden-tan

Large decorative red and golden-tan script below reads "THE Dunes

Places like this held a community together long before anyone thought to call it culture

Class D was the bedrock of the minor league system

sword raised in one hand while pointing forward with the other

Class D ball brought organized baseball to a Gulf Coast town still finding its identity

Lake Linden Lakers - Michigan - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt three rivers Large decorative red and golden-tanLake Linden's Lakers took the field in 1905 as part of Michigan's Copper Country Soo League, a Class D outfit born from the mining towns of the Upper Peninsula. Baseball gave those hardworking communities something to rally around when the shifts ended. Some clubs vanish from the record books, but they never really leave the towns that loved them. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The