Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia lake charles skippers hard-luck team from the wrong

hard-luck team from the wrong side of a one-team town that briefly had two

with their name reflecting the town’s clothing industry

and the Aces folded rather than attempt a 1942 campaign

grounds the Tobs in the specific economy of Wilson's market days rather than in the crop more generally

Cordele Bees T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia lake charles skippers hard-luck team from the wrongThe Cordele Bees, based in Cordele, Georgia, played two seasons in the Class D Georgia Florida League in 1939 and 1940. The franchise had a longer presence in the league under other names: the Cordele Reds ran from 1936 through 1938 and again from 1941 through 1942, winning league championships in both 1937 and 1942. The Bees identity was brief, sandwiched between those two Reds stints, and the team did not advance deep into the postseason in either