Des Moines Undertakers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa clarksville cats The Tigers era was the

The Tigers era was the franchise's most successful

The San Jose Missions

Between stints as the Wilson Bugs in the Virginia League during the 1920s and a run in the Coastal Plain League starting in 1939

the team struggled with attendance

and badgers are plenty tough and hard to whip

Des Moines Undertakers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa clarksville cats The Tigers era was theThe Des Moines Undertakers carried the best team name Des Moines, Iowa ever produced, in an era when the city went through names the way most clubs went through pitchers. The club was named the Undertakers for the offseason profession of its manager, Joe Quinn, who ran a mortuary business when he wasn't running a ballclub. Quinn was no ordinary skipper: born in Australia, he was the first Australian ever to play major league baseball, spending 17