Santa Barbara Rancheros T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L and one-year identities like the

and one-year identities like the Stars were often the visible seam of an affiliation change happening behind the scenes

and manager Ron Roenicke's team swept San Jose in three games for the title

winning back-to-back championships in 1935 and 1936

The team's early years were rocky: dropped from the league five weeks into 1903

The Augusta Kennebecs played from 1895-97 and were members of the New England League and later the Maine State League

Santa Barbara Rancheros T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L and one-year identities like theThe Santa Barbara Rancheros, based in Santa Barbara, California, played the 1962 and 1963 seasons in the California League, returning professional baseball to one of the league's founding cities. The name reached back to the region's Californio past, when the great Mexican era land grant ranchos defined the Santa Barbara coast, and it came from the people: a naming contest was won by Wendell Simons, a librarian at the University of California at Santa