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the only club to field a team in every season from 1934 through 1942

a nod to one of the period's more affectionate uses of the word "sport": in the 1940s and '50s

one of only four franchises to complete that final

The Joplin Miners were named for the lead and zinc mines of the Tri-State district that made Joplin

hailing from Dawson Springs

San Jose JoSox T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California longview cannibals the only club to fieldThe San Jose JoSox, based in San Jose, California, played the 1956 and 1957 seasons in the Class C California League, owner of one of the most distinctive names of baseball's portmanteau era. From 1947 through 1955 the club had been the San Jose Red Sox, a Boston affiliate that won league championships in 1949 and 1953. When Boston withdrew after 1955, the newly independent club kept a piece of its old identity, welding San Jose to Sox and playing two