Watsonville Hayseeds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL and Champions

and Champions

when the city fielded a team wonderfully recorded in the archives as the Lodi Melon Rollers

After the 2002 season the franchise rebranded once more

with the Lodi Crushers of 1966

the Aces finished fifth at 55-82 in the league's inaugural season

Watsonville Hayseeds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL and ChampionsThe Watsonville Hayseeds, based in Watsonville, California, played the 1899 season in the California League, giving the Pajaro Valley farm town a professional nine with a name that leaned all the way into its identity. Hayseed was the era's universal slang for a country boy, and Watsonville, surrounded by apple orchards, sugar beet fields, and berry farms, wore it proudly against the big city clubs of San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.