Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Glass the final identity of the

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

and the early California League circuits were among the most colorful

and in 1952 the team settled on "Lookouts"

appeared in ten All-Star games

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Glass the final identity of theThe 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