Los Angeles Looloos Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California rayne rice birds Baseball in Quincy dates back

Baseball in Quincy dates back to 1883

carrying one of the oddest names in West Coast baseball history: Sacts was simply a headline writer's abbreviation of Sacramento

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as back then leagues would play two halves and crown first and second half champs

Los Angeles Looloos Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California rayne rice birds Baseball in Quincy dates backThe Los Angeles Looloos, based in Los Angeles, California, played the 1902 season in the California League, the pre PCL circuit then centered on San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento. The name is a monument to the slang of its day: a "lulu" (the papers spelled it looloo) was something spectacular, a dazzler, a real beauty, the word sportswriters reached for when a play or a game was one for the ages. Calling the team the Looloos was period swagger,