San Jose JoSox T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California longview cannibals and team scorecards from the

and team scorecards from the Hi-Toms' mid-1950s heyday featured a sly

and Lew Jones

hailing from Dawson Springs

two seasons under two names

one of only four franchises to complete that final

San Jose JoSox T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California longview cannibals and team scorecards from theThe San Jose JoSox, based in San Jose, California, played the 1956 and 1957 seasons in the Class C California League, owner of one of the most distinctive names of baseball's portmanteau era. From 1947 through 1955 the club had been the San Jose Red Sox, a Boston affiliate that won league championships in 1949 and 1953. When Boston withdrew after 1955, the newly independent club kept a piece of its old identity, welding San Jose to Sox and playing two