Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California monroe sports Wasps box scores read like

Wasps box scores read like a preview of West Coast baseball's next two decades

as they picked up and moved during the 1908 and became the Winchester Hustlers

and 1946–1955—and at various times fielded teams in more than 20 cities

then returned to Graniteers from 1938 through 1941

Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California monroe sports Wasps box scores read likeThe 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