Visalia Stars Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California paris red peppers Valdosta was one of only

Valdosta was one of only a handful of GFL cities to field teams in both the league's original 1939-42 run and its full postwar era through 1958

and the city went through a couple of lean years without a stable club before the program found its footing

1920 and 1939

defeating the Crowley Millers four games to three in the finals

Visalia Stars Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California paris red peppers Valdosta was one of onlyThe 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