Petaluma Pets Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California ventura oilers From 1947 through 1955 the

From 1947 through 1955 the club had been the San Jose Red Sox

also played for Reidsville

1920 and 1939

joining seven other founding teams — including the Fort Wayne Railroaders and the Wheeling Stogies — when play began on April 30

Petaluma Pets Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California ventura oilers From 1947 through 1955 theThe Petaluma Pets, based in Petaluma, California, played the 1903 season in the California State League, giving the famous poultry town north of San Francisco its moment in the professional game. The Pets name was classic small town wordplay of the period, a rhyming nickname of the sort that filled early minor league standings, and it belonged to a city then beginning its rise as the self proclaimed Egg Basket of the World. Petaluma was among the