Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Home & Living When the Milwaukee Braves established

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

and the name returned for a final season in 1984

The team won the regular-season pennant in 1935 and again in 1941

operating from 1900 through 1937 and again from 1947 through 1958

playing third base for Cleveland against the Yankees

Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Home & Living When the Milwaukee Braves establishedThe 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