Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida the future 11-time Gold Glove

the future 11-time Gold Glove shortstop

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

Professional baseball came back to the city in pieces: the Hannibal Pilots (1947-48)

The team played at Bowen Field

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

Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida the future 11-time Gold GloveThe 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.