Merced Fig Growers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California muskogee oilers The franchise opened under the

The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947

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which itself lasted less than two seasons before the franchise departed for Reno in mid-1955 to become the Silver Sox

reportedly because the players were "not gentlemen on the ball field

Merced Fig Growers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California muskogee oilers The franchise opened under theThe 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