Santa Cruz Sand Crabs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Light Blue a nod to the same

a nod to the same agricultural identity that surrounded the Bears three decades later

and rebranded as the Jewels in 1943 after a naming contest referencing Huntington’s nickname as the “jewel city of the Ohio Valley

The Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League

The nickname came from The Hubinger Company

Santa Cruz Sand Crabs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Light Blue a nod to the sameThe Santa Cruz Sand Crabs, based in Santa Cruz, California, brought professional baseball to the beach, competing in the California League circuits of 1899 (as the Beachcombers) and 1908 09 (as the Sand Crabs), with ballgrounds sitting near the waterfront where coastal winds off Monterey Bay played havoc with fly balls. Both names were pure Santa Cruz, evoking the boardwalk and bathhouse seaside culture that was already drawing tourists to the city by