Ventura Oilers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Harrisburg Coal Miners They played in a brand-new

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hard-luck team from the wrong side of a one-team town that briefly had two

The team drew some of the league's strongest attendance figures during their run

seventh in the league

Baseball in Quincy dates back to 1883

Ventura Oilers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Harrisburg Coal Miners They played in a brand-newThe 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