San Francisco Mission Reds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Owingsville Merchants leaving batters staring into the

leaving batters staring into the setting sun

a one-year identity in the middle of one of minor league baseball's most durable small markets

The Rock Island Islanders were a long-running minor league baseball team from Rock Island that played from 1901-1937

making San Jose's Missions part of a long tradition of mission-belt baseball naming

San Francisco Mission Reds Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Owingsville Merchants leaving batters staring into theThe San Francisco Mission Reds played in the Pacific Coast League from 1926 through 1937, the "other team" in a two team baseball city, representing the working class Mission District while the beloved Seals got the headlines. The franchise arrived from Southern California, where it had been the Vernon Tigers, and went by Mission Bells in its first seasons before settling on Mission Reds by 1928; fans and writers also called them the Monks or simply