San Francisco Wasps T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California madisonville miners The Manufacturers and the Athletics

The Manufacturers and the Athletics both played at the same Martinsville ballpark

The year after Maris

The Owingsville Merchants were a minor league or semi-pro baseball team from Owingsville

based in Victoria

and pitcher Elmer Stricklett

San Francisco Wasps T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California madisonville miners The Manufacturers and the AthleticsThe San Francisco Wasps, based in San Francisco, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, holding down the circuit's biggest market during its turn of the century revival. San Francisco was the one constant across every incarnation of the early California League, and in an era when the league's clubs regularly carried sponsor names, from brewery backed champions to whiskey brands, the Wasps name may well have nodded to The