Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:5XL and Dothan returned to Alabama

and Dothan returned to Alabama State League competition when organized baseball resumed in 1946

the same year they won their only Bi-State League championship

which continues today

shifting leagues and affiliations roughly every decade

to pay homage to the area's roots

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:5XL and Dothan returned to AlabamaThe 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