The Channel Cities Oilers were a minor league baseball team in the California League that played in 1954 and 1955.
Their team name reflected the off-shore oil well drilling industry in the Santa Barbara Channel that began in the 1950s and was curtailed by a catastrophic oil spill in 1969.
[1] Notable major league players include Chuck Essegian, Al Gionfriddo, Dario Lodigiani (who managed the Ventura team in 1954) and Dave Melton.
[2] They moved to become the Reno Silver Sox midway through the 1955 season.
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