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the fruit company itself lasted until at least 1950

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San Francisco Wasps T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California san francisco wasps the fruit company itself lastedThe San Francisco Wasps, based in San Francisco, California, played in the California League from 1899 through 1902, holding down the circuit's biggest market during its turn of the century revival. San Francisco was the one constant across every incarnation of the early California League, and in an era when the league's clubs regularly carried sponsor names, from brewery backed champions to whiskey brands, the Wasps name may well have nodded to The