Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Kelly and Rube Walker

and Rube Walker

What followed in 1954 was one of the finest seasons in minor league history: 105-42

The franchise arrived from Southern California

the team struggled with attendance

Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Kelly and Rube WalkerThe 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