San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates Their unusual name likely came

Their unusual name likely came from a local home for disabled Union Civil War veterans

were a charter member of the California League

the Chicago White Sox pitcher whose career had been cut short after he lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938

went on to play minor league baseball with teams like the Paducah Chiefs and Jonesboro Zebras

and the Egyptians later competed in the Kitty League from 1903–1906

San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates Their unusual name likely cameThe San Jose Missions, based in San Jose, California, carried a name honoring the Spanish missions of the Santa Clara Valley across two different leagues in the late 1970s. From 1977 through 1978, the Missions were San Jose's unlikely entry in the Triple A Pacific Coast League, when the Sacramento Solons franchise was leased to San Jose while its owners pursued a new stadium. That arrangement put the highest level of minor league baseball ever seen in