San Francisco Mission Wolves T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L They were the third iteration

They were the third iteration of professional baseball in Ponca City

including back-to-back championships in 1922 and 1923

finishing 51 games out of first

" The franchise affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates under Branch Rickey and adopted the Pirates name in 1948

the new name honored the grape industry that had replaced melons at the heart of the local economy

San Francisco Mission Wolves T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L They were the third iterationThe San Francisco Mission Wolves played the tail end of the 1914 Pacific Coast League season, and their story is one of baseball's stranger naming accidents. The club began the year as the Sacramento Sacts under manager Harry Wolverton, and San Francisco sportswriters had taken to calling the team "the Wolves" after him. When the Sacts folded on September 6, 1914 and the league moved the club to San Francisco to finish the season, the informal