and the terms caught on with the opposing team
The Versailles Aristocrats were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Versailles
The Lodge & Shipley Baseball Club was a top amateur team in Cincinnati’s Brendamour Saturday League during the 1910s
the team was purchased by businessman Vick Smith and moved to Bowling Green
Also on the 1939 Alexandria staff was Virgil Trucks
Merced Bears Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Forest Green and the terms caught onThe 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