Keokuk Kernels Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa Color:Dark Chocolate Though rooted primarily in Illinois

Though rooted primarily in Illinois

fielding teams in every version of the league from 1904 to 1954

finishing last in the six-team league both years

had previously been at the 1947 Austin Pioneers' first spring training camp as one of the few former major leaguers available to that brand-new franchise

The team would not return for 1926

Keokuk Kernels Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Iowa Color:Dark Chocolate Though rooted primarily in IllinoisThe Keokuk Kernels, based in Keokuk, Iowa, played in the Illinois Indiana Iowa League from 1952 to 1957 as a Cleveland Indians affiliate. The nickname came from The Hubinger Company, a local corn starch producer that was one of the city's major employers. Baseball in Keokuk ran far deeper than the Kernels era: the 1875 Keokuk Westerns were among the founding members of the National Association, the direct predecessor to today's major leagues, and on