Lodi Melon Rollers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California san bernardino stampede The design on this shirt

The design on this shirt plays on the double meaning buried in the name: a spinning top rendered as a baseball

and was so obviously the best prospect in the sport that the league named him its Most Valuable Player despite the abbreviated stay

affiliated first with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the Milwaukee Braves

the Plowboys won league championships in 1916

Lodi Melon Rollers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California san bernardino stampede The design on this shirtThe 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