Visalia Stars Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville river rats The 1940 franchise began the

The 1940 franchise began the season in Houma

The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920

Neither city returned to professional baseball

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Visalia Stars Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California evansville river rats The 1940 franchise began theThe Visalia Stars, based in Visalia, California, played the 1953 season in the Class C California League, a one year identity in the middle of one of minor league baseball's most durable small markets. Visalia had joined the league in 1946 as the Visalia Cubs, and when the Chicago affiliation lapsed for 1953 the club played as the Stars before the Cubs name returned the following year. The Stars played at Recreation Park, the intimate downtown