Sacramento Gilt Edges T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:2XL two seasons under two names

two seasons under two names

The Hopkinsville Hoppers

The Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League

a nod to the same agricultural identity that surrounded the Bears three decades later

Sacramento Gilt Edges T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:2XL two seasons under two namesThe Sacramento Gilt Edges, based in Sacramento, California, played in the California League from 1898 through 1900, and no team name in the league's long history better captures the era's habit of naming ballclubs after their sponsors: the Gilt Edge name came from a beer brewed by Sacramento's Ruhstaller Brewery. Sponsorship clearly agreed with them, as the Gilt Edges won three consecutive California League championships from 1898 through 1900, led in