Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL and Olive Hill in the

and Olive Hill in the 1930s

The Wrappers were a lower-half club through most of their run

Home was Cycler's Park and later Luna Park

and manager Ron Roenicke's team swept San Jose in three games for the title

where most clubs had working agreements with big-league organizations

Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL and Olive Hill in theThe 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