Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks That first Three-I season was

That first Three-I season was the best of the three: manager Chuck Kress led the club to a 78-55 combined record across the two-half format

who began his professional career with the 1939 Aces as a 17-year-old

were a charter member of the KITTY League in 1903 and carried one of the most unusual names in minor league baseball

champions of the M&M League

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks That first Three-I season wasThe 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