Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks and played in the Triple

and played in the Triple I League from 1910-1914 and spent one year in the Eastern Illinois League in 1908

were a charter member of the KITTY League in 1903 and carried one of the most unusual names in minor league baseball

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

based in the island city of Alameda

then the Colts in 1947

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks and played in the TripleThe 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