Waycross Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:S and by 1992 half the

and by 1992 half the roster was on loan from Japanese leagues

Wartime demands on players and resources depleted the league's rosters

When Boston withdrew after 1955

The team's most famous near-miss came in 1955

as back then leagues would play two halves and crown first and second half champs

Waycross Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:S and by 1992 half theThe Waycross Bears, based in Waycross, Georgia, were the Georgia Florida League's dominant franchise, winning five championships across their run from 1939 through 1955: 1940, 1942, 1948, 1949, and 1951. Waycross sat at the northern edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia, and the Bears drew the league's highest single season attendance in 1939 at 85,566 fans. Baseball in Waycross long predated the Bears. In the 1920s, Shoeless Joe