Lodi Melon Rollers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL poor attendance forced owner Bob

poor attendance forced owner Bob Broome to relocate the club 150 miles to Hazard

played a single season in the Class B Western Association in 1925

San Francisco's famous satirical weekly of the day

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The partnership peaked spectacularly: Willie Davis was league MVP for Reno in 1959

Lodi Melon Rollers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL poor attendance forced owner BobThe Lodi Melon Rollers, based in Lodi, California, were the city's first professional baseball team, playing in the California State League in 1904 and 1905. The name is a small masterpiece of local truth: before Lodi became synonymous with wine grapes, it was one of California's great watermelon shipping centers, sending trainloads of melons out of San Joaquin County every summer, and the image of workers rolling melons up into boxcars gave the