Mount Vernon Kings - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:L Zim's opened in San Francisco

Zim's opened in San Francisco in 1947 and became the city's go-to spot for broiled hamburgers

but for the community they carried

Somewhere in Wichita

carrying small-town Tennessee pride onto dusty Class D diamonds

Booger checked in knowing full well what that sign really spelled

Mount Vernon Kings - Illinois - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Long Sleeve T-Shirt Size:L Zim's opened in San FranciscoMount Vernon's Kings took the diamond in 1949 as part of the Class D Southern Illinois League, bringing organized baseball to a proud coal country town. Small market clubs like these were the backbone of the minor league system in postwar America. They gave southern Illinois something to rally around on warm summer nights. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The Details: Arched distressed