Fresno Raisin Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL Also on the 1939 Alexandria

Also on the 1939 Alexandria staff was Virgil Trucks

as television and big league broadcasts thinned crowds in small towns across America

with the 1936 championship coming after Paducah refused to finish the deciding series

Hannibal is best known as the hometown of Mark Twain

a Class D league that operated in central Kentucky

Fresno Raisin Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL Also on the 1939 AlexandriaThe Fresno Raisin Growers, based in Fresno, California, played the 1909 season in the California League, during the era when the circuit operated as an independent "outlaw" league outside Organized Baseball. The name was no invention: Fresno was then, as now, the raisin capital of the world, and the club followed the 1908 Fresno Tigers as the city's entry in the league's final season before it folded under pressure from the Pacific Coast League.