Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California tifton blue sox with Hammond beating Baton Rouge

with Hammond beating Baton Rouge four games to two

which gave it it's 'KITTY' name

The Big State League folded after the 1957 season with only four teams completing the schedule

but the Spirit name belongs to that first revival

The 1945 squad struggled badly

Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California tifton blue sox with Hammond beating Baton RougeThe Oakland Dudes, based in Oakland, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, during the circuit's turn of the century revival. Oakland was one of the league's anchor cities in every incarnation, and the Dudes era coincided with the league's most stable stretch before the Pacific Coast League swallowed the region's baseball market in 1903. The Dudes' claim on baseball history is pitcher Henry Schmidt, who went a staggering