Watsonville Hayseeds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California York Beach Baseball Club The Temple Eagles

The Temple Eagles

The rapid-fire singsong chant of a tobacco auctioneer calling bids across a warehouse floor was as familiar a sound in Wilson as anything else in the city

based in Des Moines

the city’s namesake

Art Shamsky

Watsonville Hayseeds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California York Beach Baseball Club The Temple EaglesThe 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.