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and players are said to rub it for luck before games

in the lineup

and Raleigh had also won Carolina League titles in 1946 and 1947 under an earlier postwar incarnation of the team

The franchise's final season unraveled quickly

and Athletics from 1950 through 1953

Ventura Oilers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M and players are said toThe Ventura Oilers, based in Ventura, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger. Ventura had joined the league in 1947 as the Ventura Yankees, becoming the Ventura Braves in 1950, and took the Oilers name for 1953 in honor of the industry that built the town; the Ventura Avenue oil field just north of downtown was one of the richest in California, and