San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates derived from Nevada's Silver State

derived from Nevada's Silver State nickname

Their unusual name likely came from a local home for disabled Union Civil War veterans

While the Miners never produced a Hall of Fame player

the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger

San Jose Missions T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California waco pirates derived from Nevada's Silver StateThe San Jose Missions, based in San Jose, California, carried a name honoring the Spanish missions of the Santa Clara Valley across two different leagues in the late 1970s. From 1977 through 1978, the Missions were San Jose's unlikely entry in the Triple A Pacific Coast League, when the Sacramento Solons franchise was leased to San Jose while its owners pursued a new stadium. That arrangement put the highest level of minor league baseball ever seen in