Santa Cruz Sand Crabs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Fulton Lookouts and the Gulf setting gave

and the Gulf setting gave the franchise a coastal character that distinguished it from the inland Texas cities sharing the league

The name traded off with Gilt Edges

a seventeen-year-old third baseman named Eddie Mathews arrived at Finch Field and hit

named for the local canning industry

hosted an early Elvis Presley concert during the 1950s and was not demolished until 2015

Santa Cruz Sand Crabs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Fulton Lookouts and the Gulf setting gaveThe 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