Galveston White Caps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas bloomington bloomers winning back-to-back championships in 1935

winning back-to-back championships in 1935 and 1936

with Hammond beating Baton Rouge four games to two

When California League baseball returned to San Jose in 1979

still hosts California League baseball today

the Columbus Jets relocated to Charleston as the Charlies

Galveston White Caps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas bloomington bloomers winning back-to-back championships in 1935Galveston had one of the oldest baseball traditions in Texas, with teams on the island going back to the nineteenth century and a long history in the Texas League, but the city that greeted the White Caps in 1954 was still living with the long shadow of September 8, 1900, when the deadliest natural disaster in American history came ashore and killed an estimated six to twelve thousand people in a matter of hours. The hurricane permanently altered