Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Orphans were named as

The Orphans were named as such due to the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage in the city at that time

founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit

winning back-to-back championships in 1925 and 1926

who began his professional career with the 1939 Aces as a 17-year-old

based in Davenport

Oakland Dudes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Orphans were named asThe Oakland Dudes, based in Oakland, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, during the circuit's turn of the century revival. Oakland was one of the league's anchor cities in every incarnation, and the Dudes era coincided with the league's most stable stretch before the Pacific Coast League swallowed the region's baseball market in 1903. The Dudes' claim on baseball history is pitcher Henry Schmidt, who went a staggering