The Hot Springs Bathers were a Cotton States League baseball team based in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States, that played from 1938 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1955.
They were affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954 and the Kansas City Athletics in 1955.
In 1953, the Cotton States League attempted to evict the Bathers from the league because they signed and planned to play two African-American baseball players, brothers Jim and Leander Tugerson.
[1] The eviction was not permanent, however the brothers were never able to play in any regular season games for the team.
Under Joe Holden and George Sobek, they won again in 1948.