Bakersfield Badgers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Waterville Baseball Club 166 major league hits and

166 major league hits and Cooperstown

friendly term an adult might use to address a kid

Among the players who joined the Rocks partway through the 1942 season was an 18-year-old third baseman named Bobby Thomson

a nod to the same agricultural identity that surrounded the Bears three decades later

The televising of major league games took a heavy toll on minor league baseball during the 1950s

Bakersfield Badgers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Waterville Baseball Club 166 major league hits andThe Bakersfield Badgers, based in Bakersfield, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit. The nickname came from a public naming contest run by general manager E. Lee Keyser, who received hundreds of suggestions from fans; Frank Stuart of Arvin Street was first to submit the winning name and collected a season's pass to all home games for it. The logic was pure Kern County: as one fan's letter put