Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville bees winning the Lone Star League

winning the Lone Star League twice

and professional baseball has not returned to Salinas since

where baseball shared the grounds with the midway

" a visual tie between the East Texas port city and one of the American League's most recognizable clubs

Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville bees winning the Lone Star LeagueThe Ventura Oilers, based in Ventura, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger. Ventura had joined the league in 1947 as the Ventura Yankees, becoming the Ventura Braves in 1950, and took the Oilers name for 1953 in honor of the industry that built the town; the Ventura Avenue oil field just north of downtown was one of the richest in California, and