Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Home & Living and the name returned for

and the name returned for a final season in 1984

When the Milwaukee Braves established their minor league spring training complex outside the city on a decommissioned airfield

affiliated first with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the Milwaukee Braves

Named for Bourbon County and its ties to bourbon whiskey

affectionately called the KITTY League

Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Home & Living and the name returned forThe 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