Decatur Baseball T-Shirts
Description: The Decatur Commodores were a professional minor league baseball team based in Decatur, Illinois that played for 64 seasons. The Commodores are the primary ancestor of today's Kane County Cougars. They played, with sporadic interruptions, from 1900 to 1974 in a variety of minor leagues, but spent the majority of their existence in the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League (the "Three-I" League), later joining the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League (1952–1955) and the Midwest League (1956–1974).
Description: Stephen Decatur lived a wild life serving his young country in the fledgling US Navy. He took on a daring role in the burning of the USS Philadelphia during the first Barbary War and was the last to leave the burning ship, heroically leaping in to the rigging of the USS Intrepid. During this same war, he boarded an enemy ship, fought hand to hand combat with the dishonorable enemy captain, was almost killed by a scimitar to the head when one of his men jumped in front and took the blow (and recovered!), and eventually won the fight. American Hero.
