Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California georgia breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record

breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record

San Francisco was the one constant across every incarnation of the early California League

then switched to the Yankees in 1958

and it was the fictional girl whose name history kept

Mudville was a common derisive nickname for Stockton at the time

Ventura Oilers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California georgia breaking Babe Ruth's single-season recordThe Ventura Oilers, based in Ventura, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger. Ventura had joined the league in 1947 as the Ventura Yankees, becoming the Ventura Braves in 1950, and took the Oilers name for 1953 in honor of the industry that built the town; the Ventura Avenue oil field just north of downtown was one of the richest in California, and