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and no team name in the league's long history better captures the era's habit of naming ballclubs after their sponsors: the Gilt Edge name came from a beer brewed by Sacramento's Ruhstaller Brewery

The first season was a genuine success on the field

the club kept professional baseball alive in the Panhandle by moving up to the Class A Western League in 1956

so the club renamed itself the Champions for 1906

Oakland Dudes Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Cotton 0 oz/yd² (271 g/m²)) madeThe Oakland Dudes, based in Oakland, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, during the circuit's turn of the century revival. Oakland was one of the league's anchor cities in every incarnation, and the Dudes era coincided with the league's most stable stretch before the Pacific Coast League swallowed the region's baseball market in 1903. The Dudes' claim on baseball history is pitcher Henry Schmidt, who went a staggering