Watsonville Hayseeds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California iowa A young Wade Boggs played

A young Wade Boggs played there in 1977 on his way to a Hall of Fame career

leasing Stuart Stadium and continuing under the old Exporters name for the 1956 season before finishing out the league's final year in 1957 under the Pirates name

four games to one

The most celebrated player to come through Alexandria was Hall of Fame pitcher Hal Newhouser

Hall of Famer Jake Beckley

Watsonville Hayseeds T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California iowa A young Wade Boggs playedThe Watsonville Hayseeds, based in Watsonville, California, played the 1899 season in the California League, giving the Pajaro Valley farm town a professional nine with a name that leaned all the way into its identity. Hayseed was the era's universal slang for a country boy, and Watsonville, surrounded by apple orchards, sugar beet fields, and berry farms, wore it proudly against the big city clubs of San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.