San Francisco Wasps T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California madisonville miners played infield for the 1940

played infield for the 1940 Topeka Owls early in his professional career before reaching the major leagues with the New York Giants in 1946

The Owingsville Merchants were a minor league or semi-pro baseball team from Owingsville

and the DavSox were the city's attempt to reclaim its place in the circuit

The Manufacturers and the Athletics both played at the same Martinsville ballpark

and pitcher Elmer Stricklett

San Francisco Wasps T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California madisonville miners played infield for the 1940The San Francisco Wasps, based in San Francisco, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, holding down the circuit's biggest market during its turn of the century revival. San Francisco was the one constant across every incarnation of the early California League, and in an era when the league's clubs regularly carried sponsor names, from brewery backed champions to whiskey brands, the Wasps name may well have nodded to The