1906 baseball uniform with full collar, 4 button pull-over jersey and pants. Jersey was designed for detachable sleeve extensions, but no longer contains the original extensions. The Spalding tag in the jersey and pants specifically date the uniform to 1906.
Believed to be uniform from Brunswick “River Snipes”, a minor league team who played in the Class D Georgia State League in 1906.
Georgia State League:
The Georgia State League was founded in 1906 as the first Georgia-only minor league. Albany, Americus, Columbus, Cordele, Valdosta, and Waycross were the original participants of the Class D loop, directed by league president J. W. Thomas. The Columbus club moved its operations to Brunswick on June 25, and Americus and Valdosta both disbanded during the first week of July of the same year. A week later, the rest of the league folded, citing financial difficulties throughout the circuit.
An attempt was made to bring back the league in 1913 under the new name of the Empire State League, with Thomasville and Brunswick replacing Columbus and Albany. The league changed its name back to Georgia State League in 1914, and drastic changes occurred in 1915, when the league moved the Americus team to Gainesville, Florida. A team from Dothan, Alabama, was admitted to play that year, and the name of the circuit was changed to the FLAG (Florida-Alabama-Georgia) League.
