San Jose Prune Pickers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M The 1953 season brought the

The 1953 season brought the May 11 F5 tornado that destroyed Katy Park and forced the team to finish the season in Longview

and the Scott and White clinic

The Saints returned in 1942 as one of only four teams to attempt the war-shortened season before the league suspended play entirely

At the peak of the minor league era

San Jose Prune Pickers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M The 1953 season brought theThe San Jose Prune Pickers, based in San Jose, California, carried one of baseball's great occupational names through the 1899 California League and the outlaw California State League of 1903 through 1909. In the club's early years the name itself was genuinely unsettled; San Jose papers in 1904 called the team the Prune Eaters and the Prune Pickers almost interchangeably, and only over the following seasons did Prune Pickers win out, becoming