Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida The California League era began

The California League era began when the financially exhausted Channel Cities Oilers were handed off to Reno backers midway through the 1955 season

The team played at Bowen Field

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

” played professional baseball for 18 seasons under names including the Egyptians

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Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California florida The California League era beganThe 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.