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moved to the Wisconsin State League (1928-31 and 1934-37)

winning five championships across their run from 1939 through 1955: 1940

The name is one of the era's hidden gems: encinal is Spanish for a grove of coast live oaks

who raises the American flag over Fort Sackville in the novel's Revolutionary War story

Alton sits along the Mississippi River in Illinois

Merced Bears T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California brunswick pirates moved to the Wisconsin StateThe 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