This year's World Series is over and a miracle happened. A baseball team from Washington somehow won the big one. Heck, the fact that any professional sports team from Washington won a championship is near-miraculous.

Well, baseball wasn't always this big. In its purest form, baseball was small, like the towns that formed the teams. Sometimes, we had players that made it big. Maybe you've heard of them, maybe not. But Johnston's baseball and its history sorta reflect each other.

Welcome to the Tobacco State League.