Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California albany travelers As a Detroit Tigers affiliate

As a Detroit Tigers affiliate

and Schmidt won 22 games as a rookie

Bud Fowler

The Gladewater Bears were a minor league baseball team from Gladewater

After 1902

Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California albany travelers As a Detroit Tigers affiliateThe 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