Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California wilson tobs The 1955 roster included Roy

The 1955 roster included Roy Mantle and Ray Mantle

with one season and one unforgettable name in the old California League

vibrant prints and embroidery

After the Kitty League folded in 1906

when the papers used Jobbers

Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California wilson tobs The 1955 roster included RoyThe 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