Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL The Quincy Gems played in

The Quincy Gems played in the Three-I League during the 1910s and again from 1946-1956

At the peak of the minor league era in the late 1940s

The first season was a genuine success on the field

minor leagues were a central part of community life across small-town America

based in Santa Barbara

Merced Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL The Quincy Gems played inThe 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