Norfolk Jewels - Virginia - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt rr_track_drinking Neighborhoods built their social lives

Neighborhoods built their social lives around places like this

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Norfolk Jewels - Virginia - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt rr_track_drinking Neighborhoods built their social livesNorfolk's Jewels brought organized baseball to the Virginia coast when they joined the Atlantic League in 1897. Minor league ball in that era meant everything to a city like Norfolk, binding dockworkers and shopkeepers around a shared identity. Clubs like the Jewels gave small cities a place on the national map long before television changed the game forever. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of