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who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville

Local businessman Hugo "Hooks" Kohn then led a drive to bring a new team back to Davenport

The Stampede era opened with a Hall of Famer at third base: 17-year-old Adrián Beltré played 63 games for the 1996 club

The Tomcats brought baseball back to the city a year later as a fresh

That arrangement put the highest level of minor league baseball ever seen in San Jose on the field at Municipal Stadium

Watsonville Hayseeds T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mount sterling essex who worked with High PointThe Watsonville Hayseeds, based in Watsonville, California, played the 1899 season in the California League, giving the Pajaro Valley farm town a professional nine with a name that leaned all the way into its identity. Hayseed was the era's universal slang for a country boy, and Watsonville, surrounded by apple orchards, sugar beet fields, and berry farms, wore it proudly against the big city clubs of San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.