San Francisco Hot Peanuts - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Tank Top ws Turkey gets the invite out

Turkey gets the invite out of tradition

That era saw dozens of clubs rise and fold across the Northeast

A vintage black ink illustration of a male bowler in mid-delivery pose reaches upward

Charles Lee

San Francisco Hot Peanuts - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Tank Top ws Turkey gets the invite outSan Francisco's Hot Peanuts took the field in 1894 as part of the California Players League, a brief but defiant experiment in independent baseball. During an era when organized ball was tightening its grip, clubs like this one gave Pacific Coast players a league to call their own. They burned bright and brief, the way grassroots baseball often did. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The