Santa Barbara Saints Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Kitty League Their best season was 1935

Their best season was 1935

winning the league championship that same year with an 86-51 record while affiliated with the Philadelphia Athletics

Thomasville fielded its first professional team

by then renamed the Giants

played a single season in the Big State League in 1957

Santa Barbara Saints Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Kitty League Their best season was 1935The Santa Barbara Saints, based in Santa Barbara, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit, and were the league's first playoff champions. The Saints name was chosen in a popular contest that drew more than 200 different entries, announced on April 1, 1941, just weeks before the league's first pitch. The Saints were a Brooklyn Dodgers farm club, and Brooklyn took the operation seriously; when the