Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evangeline league during the circuit's turn-of-the-century revival

during the circuit's turn-of-the-century revival

though they made the finals in 1941

when Kinston fielded its first professional team in the Virginia League

Other alumni included Del Rice

Lodi Melon Rollers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evangeline league during the circuit's turn-of-the-century revivalThe Lodi Melon Rollers, based in Lodi, California, were the city's first professional baseball team, playing in the California State League in 1904 and 1905. The name is a small masterpiece of local truth: before Lodi became synonymous with wine grapes, it was one of California's great watermelon shipping centers, sending trainloads of melons out of San Joaquin County every summer, and the image of workers rolling melons up into boxcars gave the