For Springfield and its central Illinois neighbor Bloomington, the 1935 baseball season was history in the making. It’s a shame few witnessed it firsthand. In the midst of the Great Depression, these minor-league baseball rivals engaged in a thrilling pennant race and controversial postseason series. Yet the grim economic times translated into sparse crowds and […]
Bill Steinbacher-Kemp
Bill Steinbacher-Kemp is librarian and archivist with the McLean County Museum of History in downtown Bloomington.
His Three Eye League Web site
(www.three-eye.com) has additional
information on this gone-but-not-forgotten Class B loop.
