Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Alameda Encinals

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Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Alameda EncinalsThe 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