Alameda Grays T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Spring Essentials They played in Texarkana

They played in Texarkana

The Fresno Raisin Growers

and the city's amateur teams had carried river-themed names for years before organized ball arrived

but the Cardinals scaled back their farm system after 1956 and sold the team to the Greater Fresno Youth Foundation

Alameda Grays T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Spring Essentials They played in TexarkanaThe Alameda Grays, based in the island city of Alameda, California, played in the California League during its 1907 season, when the circuit operated as an independent "outlaw" league outside the bounds of Organized Baseball. Alameda was one of the smaller cities in a league dominated by San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento entries, and the Grays lasted a single season before the city was represented by the Alameda Encinals in 1908. The Grays hold