Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California iowa still hosts California League baseball

still hosts California League baseball today

Like other Tennessee teams in the league

played semiprofessionally in Americus in the 1920s after his banishment from the game

swinging seagull and all

Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California iowa still hosts California League baseballThe 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