San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates the final identity of the

the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger

derived from Nevada's Silver State nickname

and the Egyptians later competed in the Kitty League from 1903–1906

Their unusual name likely came from a local home for disabled Union Civil War veterans

went on to play minor league baseball with teams like the Paducah Chiefs and Jonesboro Zebras

San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates the final identity of theThe San Jose Missions, based in San Jose, California, carried a name honoring the Spanish missions of the Santa Clara Valley across two different leagues in the late 1970s. From 1977 through 1978, the Missions were San Jose's unlikely entry in the Triple A Pacific Coast League, when the Sacramento Solons franchise was leased to San Jose while its owners pursued a new stadium. That arrangement put the highest level of minor league baseball ever seen in