Visalia Stars T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Bluefield Blue-Grays 75 years in the making

75 years in the making

Business manager Al Gionfriddo was the ex-Brooklyn Dodger forever remembered for robbing Joe DiMaggio of a certain home run in the 1947 World Series

not the leaf itself

but a fitting coda for Ventura

Visalia Stars T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Bluefield Blue-Grays 75 years in the makingThe Visalia Stars, based in Visalia, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, a one year identity in the middle of one of minor league baseball's most durable small markets. Visalia had joined the league in 1946 as the Visalia Cubs, and when the Chicago affiliation lapsed for 1953 the club played as the Stars before the Cubs name returned the following year. The Stars played at Recreation Park, the intimate downtown