Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mcalester rockets giving fans in hundreds of

giving fans in hundreds of cities their only connection to professional baseball

Future big leaguers who passed through Adelanto included Kyle Seager

and then as interim manager on Opening Day 1947

played for the Eagles in 1949 as part of his remarkable return to professional baseball on an artificial leg

Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California mcalester rockets giving fans in hundreds ofThe 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