Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L Named for Bourbon County and

Named for Bourbon County and its ties to bourbon whiskey

they shared Staley Field with the Decatur Staleys football team

finishing 67–58 before the league folded

working four World Series

The Sooner State League was a Class D circuit that operated from 1947 through 1957

Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:L Named for Bourbon County andThe 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