San Francisco Wasps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California shelbyville grays the Gulls existed for only

the Gulls existed for only a short time before folding

and rebuilt in Burlington

featuring the spur-and-baseball S mark

swept the Opelousas Indians in the semifinals

Baseball first arrived in 1897 with a Central League team

San Francisco Wasps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California shelbyville grays the Gulls existed for onlyThe 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