Petaluma Pets T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California atlantic city surf Stockton's claim on baseball history

Stockton's claim on baseball history predates the Fliers by generations

winning the league both seasons

The Quincy Gems played in the Three-I League during the 1910s and again from 1946-1956

after an earlier Danville team played as the Tobacconists starting in 1905

while on the very same day the Topeka franchise moved into Hutchinson and became the Salt Packers

Petaluma Pets T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California atlantic city surf Stockton's claim on baseball historyThe Petaluma Pets, based in Petaluma, California, played the 1903 season in the California State League, giving the famous poultry town north of San Francisco its moment in the professional game. The Pets name was classic small town wordplay of the period, a rhyming nickname of the sort that filled early minor league standings, and it belonged to a city then beginning its rise as the self proclaimed Egg Basket of the World. Petaluma was among the