Description: The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930. The Stars were an independent ball club in 1933, a member of the Negro National League from 1934 until the League's collapse following the 1948 season, and affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952.
Description: Celebrating the Birthplace of Baseball evolved over thirty years primarily by spirited citizens and civic groups of the Village of Cooperstown. In the early thirties the need to formalize, control actives, and satisfy legal matters the Cooperstown Centennial Committee was formed.
Description: The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team's name came from Tip Top Bread, a product of Ward Baking Company, which was also owned by team owner Robert Ward. This is a recreation of the classic shirt sold by Baseball Nostalgia in Cooperstown during the 1980s-90s.
