Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies played the 1953 season in

played the 1953 season in the Class C California League

From 1977 through 1978

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and then the city waited 37 years for professional baseball to return

The Versailles Aristocrats were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Versailles

Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies played the 1953 season inThe 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