Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M In the late 1940s and

In the late 1940s and early 1950s

a comeback that inspired the 1949 Jimmy Stewart film "The Stratton Story

and Sooner State League

The Natchez Pilgrims

and then joined the Carolina League in 1948

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M In the late 1940s andThe Merced Fig Growers, based in Merced, California, played in the California State League in 1910, arriving mid season when the Oakland Invaders franchise relocated to the San Joaquin Valley. The name saluted the fig orchards then spreading across Merced County, part of the great agricultural boom that gave the early California minors some of the best team names ever recorded: the Fig Growers joined the Raisin Growers, Prune Pickers, and Melon