Los Angeles Looloos Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California rayne rice birds sugar beet fields

sugar beet fields

The Manufacturers became a St

they shared Douglas Park with the Rock Island Independents (an early NFL team) before the franchise eventually folded in 1937

as back then leagues would play two halves and crown first and second half champs

As far as we know

Los Angeles Looloos Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California rayne rice birds sugar beet fieldsThe Los Angeles Looloos, based in Los Angeles, California, played the 1902 season in the California League, the pre PCL circuit then centered on San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento. The name is a monument to the slang of its day: a "lulu" (the papers spelled it looloo) was something spectacular, a dazzler, a real beauty, the word sportswriters reached for when a play or a game was one for the ages. Calling the team the Looloos was period swagger,