drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2008 | baseball, history, michigan, religion, weird
For those interested in wildly popular early-20th-c. barnstorming religious baseball teams, here's a dot for you.
I was trying to work them into my faves league fantasy baseball team name, but Derek wisely limited names to 20 characters.
Quoted: By 1920, the team was "barnstorming" around the country, earning money for the colony, and using the team as a way to preach to potential members.
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