New business embroidery machine question

Like a lot of people that post on here, I am looking for advice on purchasing an embroidery machine. My situation may be a little more unique than most new or part time businesses.

I owned a sporting goods store for ten years that I recently sold. During that time we did many team uniform and apparel jerseys and warm-ups etc. We provided the garments but farmed out the embroidery and screen printing.

I have an unrelated full time job and long story short, I still have many contacts in the school, institutional, business world etc. We would like to start out part time doing team sports warm ups, business jackets etc. Not huge quantities, but maybe a few hundred pieces a month. Also, not sure of how large in physical size we would need to go up to.

Looking for an affordable, reliable machine to get started.