Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL The name honored the produce-packing

The name honored the produce-packing industry that defined the Salinas Valley

and the franchise became the Austin Senators and later the Braves

New Mexico and produce the records that made him famous

The Quincy Gems played in the Three-I League during the 1910s and again from 1946-1956

In the spring of 1949 the company refused

Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL The name honored the produce-packingThe Merced Bears, based in Merced, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit, and were fittingly a farm club of the Boston Bees, as the Boston Braves were then briefly known. Merced was the smallest market among the eight founding cities, and the Bears struggled accordingly, finishing last at 50 86, a full 38 games behind pennant winning Fresno. That one season was the whole story. When World War