ST. MARY'S COLLEGE BASEBALL Short-Sleeve T-Shirt

Here's another one of Kentucky's "lost" institutions of higher learning -- St. Mary's College. The school was about six miles outside of Lebanon and began in a stone distillery building. It suffered through a couple of fires, the Jesuits moving out, and just plain 'ol educational competition, eventually closing in 1929. But from the pictures we've seen, it was a wonderful looking campus -- majestic buildings that would rival those on an Ivy League campus. And, their students liked to ball, too! In 1917, the campus contained four handball alleys, three baseball diamonds, a gridiron, a croquet lawn, a tennis court, and a swimming pool.  St. Mary’s fielded a football squad from 1906 through 1927.  In 1908, they went undefeated and were the "champions of Kentucky" —having knocked off Centre, Transy, Central, Kentucky Military Institute, Lexington Athletic Club, Louisville University School and Hanover College of Indiana.  As luck would have it, UK also claimed the title and pointed out tha