Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida Each shirt comes with side

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and that postwar population made a minor league franchise viable in a corner of the state that most baseball circuits had never reached

the future 11-time Gold Glove shortstop

The franchise had a longer presence in the league under other names: the Cordele Reds ran from 1936 through 1938 and again from 1941 through 1942

For the previous decade and a half the club had been the Fresno Cardinals

Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida Each shirt comes with sideThe Alameda Encinals, based in the island city of Alameda, California, played the 1908 season in the outlaw California League, succeeding the Alameda Grays as the city's entry in the circuit. The name is one of the era's hidden gems: encinal is Spanish for a grove of coast live oaks, the trees that covered the island before development, and the name survives all over Alameda today in its Encinal district, Encinal Avenue, and Encinal High School.