Marion Oilworkers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Ohio Embroidery Though rooted primarily in Illinois

Though rooted primarily in Illinois

The team fared worse in 1948

they were the Owls in 1946

It's not clear if they belonged to a specific league

then sat dormant for more than three decades

Marion Oilworkers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Ohio Embroidery Though rooted primarily in IllinoisThe Marion Oilworkers, based in Marion, Ohio, take their name from the oil drilling boom that was active in the region during the early 1900s. The club was a charter member of the Class B Central League, joining seven other founding teams including the Fort Wayne Railroaders and the Wheeling Stogies when play began on April 30, 1903, with home games at Webb Park. Marion had fielded a minor league team once before this, the short lived Glass Blowers,