Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mcalester rockets played for the Eagles in

played for the Eagles in 1949 as part of his remarkable return to professional baseball on an artificial leg

The Salinas Packers

for whatever reason the name stuck

KY in the first half of the 20th century

Future big leaguers who passed through Adelanto included Kyle Seager

Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mcalester rockets played for the Eagles inThe 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