Santa Barbara Saints T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville river rats and manager Ron Roenicke's team

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

The Danville Speakers hailed from Danville

a 19-year-old shortstop named Red Schoendienst joined the Cardinals after the KITTY League folded mid-season

who won consecutive Western Association and Oklahoma State League championships before folding

won the National League Rookie of the Year award with San Francisco in 1957

Santa Barbara Saints T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville river rats and manager Ron Roenicke's teamThe Santa Barbara Saints, based in Santa Barbara, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit, and were the league's first playoff champions. The Saints name was chosen in a popular contest that drew more than 200 different entries, announced on April 1, 1941, just weeks before the league's first pitch. The Saints were a Brooklyn Dodgers farm club, and Brooklyn took the operation seriously; when the