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Sacramento Gilt Edges T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Iowa when a city that hadThe Sacramento Gilt Edges, based in Sacramento, California, played in the California League from 1898 through 1900, and no team name in the league's long history better captures the era's habit of naming ballclubs after their sponsors: the Gilt Edge name came from a beer brewed by Sacramento's Ruhstaller Brewery. Sponsorship clearly agreed with them, as the Gilt Edges won three consecutive California League championships from 1898 through 1900, led in