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fielding a rare co-operative roster stocked by multiple big league organizations in its first two seasons

a former major leaguer who managed the team in 1942 after pitching nearly 300 MLB games in the 1920s and 30s

winning five championships across their run from 1939 through 1955: 1940

who raises the American flag over Fort Sackville in the novel's Revolutionary War story

a one-year identity in the middle of one of minor league baseball's most durable small markets

Merced Bears T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California brunswick pirates fielding a rare co-operative rosterThe 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