Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California des moines demons all-African-American squad formed around 1944

all-African-American squad formed around 1944 that played into the mid-1960s

The team was also a Washington Senators affiliate during this time

The "White Caps" name

under manager Jack Hendricks

Alameda Encinals Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California des moines demons all-African-American squad formed around 1944The Alameda Encinals, based in the island city of Alameda, California, played the 1908 season in the outlaw California League, succeeding the Alameda Grays as the city's entry in the circuit. The name is one of the era's hidden gems: encinal is Spanish for a grove of coast live oaks, the trees that covered the island before development, and the name survives all over Alameda today in its Encinal district, Encinal Avenue, and Encinal High School.