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and West Virginia

towns across the Deep South supported professional baseball at the Class D level as one of the few organized forms of summer entertainment

a 19-year-old shortstop named Red Schoendienst joined the Cardinals after the KITTY League folded mid-season

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That first season was one of the franchise's best: the Herefords went 86-51 for second place

Ventura County Gulls T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Valentine's Day and West VirginiaThe Ventura County Gulls, based in Ventura, California, played the 1986 season in the California League, returning professional baseball to the coast for the first time since the Channel Cities Oilers era three decades earlier. The franchise arrived when former big league third baseman Ken McMullen led a group, including actor Mark Harmon, that bought the dormant Lodi club and moved it to seaside Ventura County; McMullen knew the league well, having