La Grande Beetpullers - Oregon - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt retrostuff Arizona was copper country

Arizona was copper country

Berra and Rizzuto Lanes opened in the late 1950s inside the Styertowne Shopping Center in Clifton

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Flowing white script with black outlines reads "Saratoga Lanes" above a cartoon illustration of a grinning black bowling ball crashing into white pins with red neck stripes

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La Grande Beetpullers - Oregon - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt retrostuff Arizona was copper countryLa Grande's Beetpullers took the field in 1902 as part of the Inland Empire League, a Class D outfit born from Oregon's agricultural heartland. Sugar beet farming defined that region, and the team carried that identity with pride. Small town baseball clubs like this one gave working communities something to rally around long before the modern game forgot them. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of