Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL winning back-to-back championships in 1925

winning back-to-back championships in 1925 and 1926

an image this design borrows directly from

Baseball historians later ranked those 1954 Pirates 25th among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time

The Topeka Owls

for whatever reason the name stuck

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL winning back-to-back championships in 1925The 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