Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evangeline league The Danville Old Soldiers played

The Danville Old Soldiers played just one season in the Kitty League in 1906

with ballgrounds sitting near the waterfront where coastal winds off Monterey Bay played havoc with fly balls

when the league folded before a champion could be declared

wore it proudly against the big-city clubs of San Francisco

Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evangeline league The Danville Old Soldiers playedThe Lodi Melon Rollers, based in Lodi, California, were the city's first professional baseball team, playing in the California State League in 1904 and 1905. The name is a small masterpiece of local truth: before Lodi became synonymous with wine grapes, it was one of California's great watermelon shipping centers, sending trainloads of melons out of San Joaquin County every summer, and the image of workers rolling melons up into boxcars gave the