Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks a nod to the parent

a nod to the parent club's own nickname without using it outright

That first Three-I season was the best of the three: manager Chuck Kress led the club to a 78-55 combined record across the two-half format

who began his professional career with the 1939 Aces as a 17-year-old

The Lexington Colts were a minor league baseball team based in Lexington

champions of the M&M League

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks a nod to the parentThe 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