Business manager Al Gionfriddo was the ex-Brooklyn Dodger forever remembered for robbing Joe DiMaggio of a certain home run in the 1947 World Series
Though their time on the diamond was brief
The Cherokees were an early part of Kingsport’s rich baseball history
Valdosta was one of only a handful of GFL cities to field teams in both the league's original 1939-42 run and its full postwar era through 1958
and though the identity lasted just one season
Fresno Raisin Growers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Harrisburg Coal Miners Business manager Al Gionfriddo wasThe Fresno Raisin Growers, based in Fresno, California, played the 1909 season in the California League, during the era when the circuit operated as an independent "outlaw" league outside Organized Baseball. The name was no invention: Fresno was then, as now, the raisin capital of the world, and the club followed the 1908 Fresno Tigers as the city's entry in the league's final season before it folded under pressure from the Pacific Coast League.