San Francisco Mission Wolves T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California TikTok and though the identity lasted

and though the identity lasted just one season

The early California League circuits were among the most colorful of these

and represented the deepest baseball tradition of any of the league's founding cities

The franchise's primary home was the Alabama State League

professional baseball would not return to Ashland until a Frontier League franchise arrived in 1993

San Francisco Mission Wolves T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California TikTok and though the identity lastedThe 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