where most clubs had working agreements with big-league organizations
and Olive Hill in the 1930s
The Wrappers were a lower-half club through most of their run
playing at Oiler Park as the city's first professional baseball team
Home was Cycler's Park and later Luna Park
Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL where most clubs had workingThe 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