Sacramento Sacts Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Coffee Mugs The Clay City Nine were

The Clay City Nine were early baseball teams from Clay City

The ballpark

and in 1936 the franchise settled in San Diego as the original Padres

thanks to Hunter Martin for the help

Cubs (1950)

Sacramento Sacts Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Coffee Mugs The Clay City Nine wereThe Sacramento Sacts played in the Pacific Coast League from 1909 through 1913, carrying one of the oddest names in West Coast baseball history: Sacts was simply a headline writer's abbreviation of Sacramento, the kind of space saving newspaper shorthand that hardened into an official identity. The name shared the stage with Senators and, eventually, Solons, but for these five seasons the scorecards said Sacts. The franchise behind the name was the