Hannibal Mules Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri kitty league Their name was a contraction

Their name was a contraction of "Davenport White Sox

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The Capitals name had been used by Raleigh teams as far back as the 1920s Piedmont League

That franchise still plays in Davenport today as the Quad Cities River Bandits

Hannibal Mules Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri kitty league Their name was a contractionThe Hannibal Mules, based in Hannibal, Missouri, played two seasons in the Illinois Indiana Iowa League in 1916 and 1917 before the circuit shut down for World War I. The Mules were part of a geographic expansion that brought the league across the Mississippi into Missouri, one of several non Illinois Indiana Iowa clubs that joined the Three I as the league's founding era franchises contracted. The name fit the city's working identity: Hannibal was a