Bakersfield Badgers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fresno sunsox The franchise arrived when the

The franchise arrived when the Riverside Red Wave was purchased and moved to the Mojave Desert by the Brett brothers

Grimes would move on to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937

gone without a team from 1912 through 1937

The Tigers era was the franchise's most successful

The Browns were regularly competitive throughout the 1940s before folding after a last-place finish in 1949

Bakersfield Badgers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fresno sunsox The franchise arrived when theThe Bakersfield Badgers, based in Bakersfield, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit. The nickname came from a public naming contest run by general manager E. Lee Keyser, who received hundreds of suggestions from fans; Frank Stuart of Arvin Street was first to submit the winning name and collected a season's pass to all home games for it. The logic was pure Kern County: as one fan's letter put