Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M then joined the Class B

then joined the Class B Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League for the 1959 season as a Cincinnati Reds affiliate

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

winning league championships in 1956

and Sooner State League

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:M then joined the Class BThe 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