Long Beach Beachcombers - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt thehits Turkey gets the invite out

Turkey gets the invite out of tradition

Bold olive-green serif text reading "GRANT" above "PALEONTOLOGY" sits inside a rounded rectangular border

Bold distressed white text below reads "GAME OVER

" and "1879" flanking a vintage hand-drawn illustration of a bearded baseball player in a 19th-century uniform standing in a batting stance

with weathered white sans-serif text reading "SWIM TEAM" below

Long Beach Beachcombers - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Unisex Sweatshirt thehits Turkey gets the invite outLong Beach fielded the Beachcombers in the Southern California League during the 1913 season, a brief but proud chapter in minor league history. California's coastal towns were building identities through baseball in that era. A team like this gave Long Beach something to rally around before the city became the sprawling port town it is today. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The