Ventura Oilers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Danville Old Soldiers Professional baseball came back to

Professional baseball came back to the city in pieces: the Hannibal Pilots (1947-48)

finishing 5

part of the collegiate summer Appalachian League

sharing the season with fellow newcomers like the Santa Cruz Beachcombers and San Jose Prune Pickers just over the hills

were charter members of the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League in 1901

Ventura Oilers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Danville Old Soldiers Professional baseball came back toThe Ventura Oilers, based in Ventura, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger. Ventura had joined the league in 1947 as the Ventura Yankees, becoming the Ventura Braves in 1950, and took the Oilers name for 1953 in honor of the industry that built the town; the Ventura Avenue oil field just north of downtown was one of the richest in California, and