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The Versailles Aristocrats were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Versailles
and the Infants finished with fourth with a 46-61 record
The Tobs won the 1959 Carolina League championship
and the terms caught on with the opposing team
Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Forest Green a Seven-Up bottling magnateThe 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