Petaluma Pets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California watsonville hayseeds A year later they changed

A year later they changed to the Chicks

then continued through the Big State League's final two seasons under different names

a nod to one of the period's more affectionate uses of the word "sport": in the 1940s and '50s

Ventura had joined the league in 1947 as the Ventura Yankees

then the Pirates

Petaluma Pets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California watsonville hayseeds A year later they changedThe 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