Lake Linden Lakers - Michigan - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt three rivers Class D was the bedrock

Class D was the bedrock of the minor league system

Class D ball brought organized baseball to a Gulf Coast town still finding its identity

Places like this held a community together long before anyone thought to call it culture

Distressed white block text below reads "RITUAL KILLING

Lake Linden Lakers - Michigan - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt three rivers Class D was the bedrockLake Linden's Lakers took the field in 1905 as part of Michigan's Copper Country Soo League, a Class D outfit born from the mining towns of the Upper Peninsula. Baseball gave those hardworking communities something to rally around when the shifts ended. Some clubs vanish from the record books, but they never really leave the towns that loved them. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The