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The San Francisco Boat Shoes (The Shoes) are a Golly team from San Francisco, California, and are one of the original 16 Golly teams.

The Boat Shoes hold a number of Golly and Hellmouth Cup records and have accomplished many firsts, including:

first Hot League pennant winner
most Hellmouth Cup championships (6)
most Hellmouth Cup championship appearances (7)
most Hellmouth Cup postseason victories all-time (30, 8 more than the runner-up)
longest winning streak in the Hellmouth Cup (14 wins, Season 20)
first team to achieve a Dynasty (three championships in one Cup)
first team to achieve a Flawless Dynasty (three championships in three attempts, in one Cup)
first team to achieve a second Dynasty
first team to achieve a Double Flawless Dynasty (six championships in six attempts, in one Cup)
first team to achieve two Dynasties in a single Cup (Hellmouth Cup)

Common knowledge was that being a successful Golly team required brute force and demonic pacts, but the Boat Shoes relied on agility, precision, and an almost supernatural ability to navigate the chaotic arenas of the Hellmouth Cup. They reached the Hellmouth Cup series in their first year, and while they lost it to the Long Beach Flightless Birds (Surf and Turf Crown), and lost the championship series to the Sacramento Boot Lickers (Cali Crown) the next year, they were a perennial presence in the postseason, finally winning their first Hellmouth Cup the next season agains the Elko Astronauts .

As with any team experiencing a strong postseason streak, the Boat Shoes attracted their share of skeptics, detractors, and anti-fans who cheered at the team's every misfortune. The Boat Shoes used this as validation and it began to feed their egos, and soon their rivalry was with the entire league.