Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S Fairmont's Black Diamonds took the

Fairmont's Black Diamonds took the field in 1907 as part of the Western Pennsylvania League

A gray thumbs-up hand emerges from behind the tombstone

palm trees

but the distressed vintage font apparently makes it official

Belleville Stags - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:S Fairmont's Black Diamonds took theBelleville's Stags played Class D ball in the Illinois State League starting in 1947, representing a small town's hunger for professional baseball in the postwar years. Minor league clubs like this one gave returning servicemen and local kids something to believe in on warm summer nights. Southern Illinois never forgot what that diamond meant. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The