Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Henderson Oilers minor league

The Henderson Oilers minor league baseball team played in the East Texas League from 1931 through 1950

and Olive Hill in the 1930s

and Sacramento entries

The Wrappers were a lower-half club through most of their run

Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:4XL The Henderson Oilers minor leagueThe Merced Bears, based in Merced, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit, and were fittingly a farm club of the Boston Bees, as the Boston Braves were then briefly known. Merced was the smallest market among the eight founding cities, and the Bears struggled accordingly, finishing last at 50 86, a full 38 games behind pennant winning Fresno. That one season was the whole story. When World War