Fresno SunSox Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Sand posting a 78-61 third-place finish

posting a 78-61 third-place finish in 1949 and an 80-59 record in 1950

one season and out

winning league championships in both 1937 and 1942

The franchise folded after winning that 1951 championship

while on the very same day the Topeka franchise moved into Hutchinson and became the Salt Packers

Fresno SunSox Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Sand posting a 78-61 third-place finishThe 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