Lincoln Antelopes Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska madisonville miners Tommy John started his professional

Tommy John started his professional career in Dubuque in 1961

Their accumulative record over those four season was 187-312

based in Oakland

after going 25-47 to that point in the season

which would collapse mid-season

Lincoln Antelopes Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska madisonville miners Tommy John started his professionalThe Lincoln Antelopes of Lincoln, Nebraska are a team where the record books and the newspapers disagree, and we side with the newspapers. Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters, a tidy tribute to the city's namesake. But the Lincoln papers of those seasons tell a different story: day after day, the team was the Antelopes, often shortened to the Lopes, named for the pronghorn that ran the