Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Sale Louis Browns affiliate in 1937

Louis Browns affiliate in 1937 and 1941

were founded in 1923 by the Madison Athletic Association and spent nearly two decades working their way up through Wisconsin's minor league ladder

a former Cincinnati Reds infielder who had spent four seasons with the Gainesville Owls

The Port Arthur Sea Hawks

The team's name is a translation of the city's own: Baton Rouge is French for "red stick

Fayetteville Highlanders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - North Carolina Sale Louis Browns affiliate in 1937The 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