Santa Barbara Rancheros T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L The team's early years were

The team's early years were rocky: dropped from the league five weeks into 1903

brought professional baseball back to the city in 1987 after a 37-year absence

That PCL franchise went on to become one of the most successful in minor league history

and one-year identities like the Stars were often the visible seam of an affiliation change happening behind the scenes

Santa Barbara Rancheros T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L The team's early years wereThe Santa Barbara Rancheros, based in Santa Barbara, California, played the 1962 and 1963 seasons in the California League, returning professional baseball to one of the league's founding cities. The name reached back to the region's Californio past, when the great Mexican era land grant ranchos defined the Santa Barbara coast, and it came from the people: a naming contest was won by Wendell Simons, a librarian at the University of California at Santa