Lodi Crushers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California ashland fruit company wrote Robinson's name into the

wrote Robinson's name into the Dodger lineup as the first manager of an integrated major league team in the modern era

were one of the Georgia-Florida League's founding members in 1935 and one of its most successful franchises

and the name carried on at Fiscalini Field through 1995 when the incoming Salinas franchise adopted it

Following the 1955 season

losing to Moultrie

Lodi Crushers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California ashland fruit company wrote Robinson's name into theThe Lodi Crushers, based in Lodi, California, played in the California League from 1966 through 1969, and the name returned for a final season in 1984. The nickname came from a name the team contest that drew 173 submissions; five different fans landed on Crushers, a deliberate double meaning nodding to hard hitting ballplayers and to the grape crushing wine industry at the heart of the Lodi economy. The franchise itself was a bargain: when the league