Vintage Washington Shirts: Defunct Washington Baseball Teams

Washington's minor league history starts in 1890, when Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane joined Portland in the region's first professional league, and the Tacoma Daisies were in first place with a young Clark Griffith on the staff when that league collapsed in 1892. By 1902 Dan Dugdale's Seattle Clamdiggers were chasing Butte for the pennant, the last-place Spokane Smoke Eaters had 43-year-old Tony Mullane and a future Cubs ace, Jack Pfiester, on the mound, and a Pendleton correspondent was warning umpires that the Walla Walla Sharpshooters were "foxy to the last degree." On the coast, the Southwest Washington League counted only weekend games in its standings, the Hoquiam Perfect Gentlemen won the 1904 pennant, and the Olympia Senators played the capital's games in a grandstand built from the timbers of an old bicycle track.

The names came from the towns. Everett, which called itself the City of Smokestacks for its waterfront sawmills, gave the name to its 1905 Smokestackers, champions in their only season, and the Seattle Drydockers of 1919 took their name from the city's wartime shipyards. Bellingham's Chinooks won the 1938 title in their first season, the Wenatchee Chiefs got their name from a newspaper contest and lasted 25 seasons, and the 1948 Yakima Packers, named for a valley of fruit packers, lost 109 games. The Tri-City Atoms grew up around the Hanford Site and won back-to-back pennants under Cal Ripken Sr. and Duke Snider. Our vintage Washington shirts honor these defunct clubs with original designs grounded in real research.

Every team below links to its own collection, where you can read the full history and shop shirts, hoodies, and crewnecks for that club. Find your hometown team, or the one your grandfather used to talk about.