Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL Home was Cycler's Park and

Home was Cycler's Park and later Luna Park

The Wrappers were a lower-half club through most of their run

The Henderson Oilers minor league baseball team played in the East Texas League from 1931 through 1950

playing at Oiler Park as the city's first professional baseball team

and manager Ron Roenicke's team swept San Jose in three games for the title

Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL Home was Cycler's Park andThe 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