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Local businessman Hugo "Hooks" Kohn then led a drive to bring a new team back to Davenport

The franchise arrived from Southern California

who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville

Watsonville Hayseeds T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mount sterling essex and surrounding statesThe Watsonville Hayseeds, based in Watsonville, California, played the 1899 season in the California League, giving the Pajaro Valley farm town a professional nine with a name that leaned all the way into its identity. Hayseed was the era's universal slang for a country boy, and Watsonville, surrounded by apple orchards, sugar beet fields, and berry farms, wore it proudly against the big city clubs of San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.