Oldstead Irish are a baseball team located in the capital of the county of Arclidshire, Oldstead. Brendan Richardson formed the team in 1897 along the southern banks of the city where there was a large Irish population who had migrated to Ianoia to escape the Great Famine of Ireland.

The team quickly found success, gaining eminence for beating Spartans of Martletwy, the prominent amateur team of the time, winning three of four games between the two sides during the year of 1899. This prompted the Irish to be banned from participating in exhibition games as they weren’t registered with the Ianoian Baseball Association. With McCutchen City’s Addison Eliot attempting to gain support for a professional league in Ianoia, Eliot approached Richardson and agreed to support Oldstead Irish’s attempt to join any national competition due to the teams success over Spartans. Oldstead joined the newly formed I-League just two months after officially registering the club in January 1900.

Paget Lane Field is where Oldstead Irish play there home games which sits a few blocks in from the coast in the south of the city. Despite the slums of the area now making way for trendy bars, clubs and a yuppy lifestyle, Oldstead still has a strong Irish influence in no small part to the major team in the city.