Lodi Crushers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L a vital hub for commerce

a vital hub for commerce and transportation in the 19th and early 20th centuries

The York Beach Baseball Club was a minor league baseball team that played out of Waterville

the Orphans existed for only a single season before folding

Eckhardt still holds the highest combined professional batting average ever recorded

and Native American history had left a culture with strong ties to the waterways

Lodi Crushers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L a vital hub for commerceThe Lodi Crushers, based in Lodi, California, played in the California League from 1966 through 1969, and the name returned for a final season in 1984. The nickname came from a name the team contest that drew 173 submissions; five different fans landed on Crushers, a deliberate double meaning nodding to hard hitting ballplayers and to the grape crushing wine industry at the heart of the Lodi economy. The franchise itself was a bargain: when the league