Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks and played in the Triple

and played in the Triple I League from 1910-1914 and spent one year in the Eastern Illinois League in 1908

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

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

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

and San Francisco sportswriters had taken to calling the team "the Wolves" after him

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Holiday Picks and played in the TripleThe 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