Lodi Crushers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies The "Hub of the Plains"

The "Hub of the Plains" identity was agricultural as much as commercial

they had pitched through back-to-back no hitters

The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920

a Class D league for three years and Class C for its final three

Our design is adapted from original Gulls artwork found in the team's 1986 game programs

Lodi Crushers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies The "Hub of the Plains"The 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