Licking, Missouri -
Baseball Water Tower

A 2009 tipster claimed to have visited the town and "was told that the tower isn't painted that way anymore due to a change in the town's feelings toward baseball." Although the Rawlings Apparel factory which manufactured Major and Minor league baseball uniforms in Licking closed in 2003, one of the town's two water towers remains painted like a baseball. [CJ, 01/29/2011]

The tower is no longer painted like baseball. When I asked locals about not being able to find the tower, they informed me Rawlings was no longer in town and maybe "Their outlook on baseball had changed!" [Lonny Rowden, 11/15/2009]

Water tower painted like the World's Largest Baseball at the Rawlings Sporting Goods factory. [judy, 01/12/2003]

[RA: Other baseball water towers include Arlington, MN; Fort Mill, SC; and Greenville, SC.]