Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Glass and another in 1950 as

and another in 1950 as a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate

the final identity of the city's own franchise before a regional merger

and in 1952 the team settled on "Lookouts"

who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville

The Lodi Crushers

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Glass and another in 1950 asThe 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