They played the 1897 season in the Maine State League
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winning the league title both years
and the River Rats played through 1904 before folding
they became a strong playoff contender
Los Angeles Looloos T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California alameda encinals They played the 1897 seasonThe Los Angeles Looloos, based in Los Angeles, California, played the 1902 season in the California League, the pre PCL circuit then centered on San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento. The name is a monument to the slang of its day: a "lulu" (the papers spelled it looloo) was something spectacular, a dazzler, a real beauty, the word sportswriters reached for when a play or a game was one for the ages. Calling the team the Looloos was period swagger,