Sacramento Senators Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Danville Old Soldiers and Oilers before the Depression

and Oilers before the Depression took the franchise in 1933

But it did give us some great team nicknames like the Cogs and the Jacksonville Tomato Pickers

307 for the 1969 club on his way to an 18-year big league career with four All-Star selections and two World Series rings

finishing seventh in 1937 and 1938 at 43-68 and 43-77 respectively

Sacramento Senators Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Danville Old Soldiers and Oilers before the DepressionThe Sacramento Senators, based in Sacramento, California, carried the capital city's signature baseball name through multiple stints in the early California League, appearing in 1890 91, 1893, 1901, 1904, and 1908 09 as leagues formed, folded, and reformed around them. The name was the natural choice for the seat of state government, and it proved durable: Sacramento clubs would answer to Senators on and off for decades, with sportswriters eventually