Pioneers Mugs
Description: A black background features large gold text "PIONEERS" above "75". Below, white text reads "BREAKING BARRIERS. DRIVING CHANGE.". Three portraits of men, each framed by a laurel wreath, appear in a row. Text below each portrait identifies "CHUCK COOPER FIRST BLACK PLAYER IN 1950", "NAT CLIFTON SIGNED IN 1950", and "EARL LLOYD FIRST BLACK PLAYED IN 1950". A "75TH ANNIVERSARY" emblem is at the bottom.
Description: The city of Mansfield, Ohio, was home to minor league baseball teams, known by various nicknames, which played periodically between 1887 and 1912, and between 1935 and 1941. The team first began play in the Ohio State League in 1887 as simply Mansfield. In 1906, the city was represented in then Ohio–Pennsylvania League with the Mansfield Giants. The club changed its name to the Mansfield Pioneers in 1907 until 1909. The team was once again renamed the Mansfield Reformers in 1910 and the Mansfield Brownies in 1911. In 1912 the club moved back to the Ohio State League for their final season of this era.
