Fresno SunSox Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California bluefield blue-grays Waycross sat at the northern

Waycross sat at the northern edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia

The Ardmore Boomers

The Wheatshockers' Western League run was brief

They finished 22 games ahead of second-place Waterloo

upsetting the McAlester Rockets 4 games to 2 in the finals

Fresno SunSox Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California bluefield blue-grays Waycross sat at the northernThe Fresno SunSox, based in Fresno, California, played the 1957 season in the Class C California League, a one year identity bridging two long eras of Fresno baseball. For the previous decade and a half the club had been the Fresno Cardinals, owned outright by St. Louis, but the Cardinals scaled back their farm system after 1956 and sold the team to the Greater Fresno Youth Foundation. Operating in 1957 without a major league affiliation, working