Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California alameda grays leasing Stuart Stadium and continuing

leasing Stuart Stadium and continuing under the old Exporters name for the 1956 season before finishing out the league's final year in 1957 under the Pirates name

based in Mayodan

but lost to the Rocky Mount Rocks four games to one

In the late 1940s and early 1950s

affectionately called the KITTY League

Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California alameda grays leasing Stuart Stadium and continuingThe Oakland Dudes, based in Oakland, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, during the circuit's turn of the century revival. Oakland was one of the league's anchor cities in every incarnation, and the Dudes era coincided with the league's most stable stretch before the Pacific Coast League swallowed the region's baseball market in 1903. The Dudes' claim on baseball history is pitcher Henry Schmidt, who went a staggering