Lodi Melon Rollers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fayetteville highlanders The name stuck around anyway

The name stuck around anyway

spending most of their later years in the Three-I League

Greensboro briefly rebranded as the Pirates in the early 1950s before returning to the Patriots name in 1954 as a Boston Red Sox affiliate

When those teams disbanded

Law won the Cy Young Award with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960

Lodi Melon Rollers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fayetteville highlanders The name stuck around anywayThe 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