Alameda Grays Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California longview cannibals The logic was pure Kern

The logic was pure Kern County: as one fan's letter put it

with the “Gems” nickname becoming the city’s most recognizable baseball identity across several minor league eras

held a naming contest drawing nearly five hundred submissions

because the second game was presumably called early

posting winning records in five of six seasons and never finishing lower than third place

Alameda Grays Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California longview cannibals The logic was pure KernThe Alameda Grays, based in the island city of Alameda, California, played in the California League during its 1907 season, when the circuit operated as an independent "outlaw" league outside the bounds of Organized Baseball. Alameda was one of the smaller cities in a league dominated by San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento entries, and the Grays lasted a single season before the city was represented by the Alameda Encinals in 1908. The Grays hold