Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL Cairo’s population has since dwindled

Cairo’s population has since dwindled to about 1

part of the collegiate summer Appalachian League

strangely named chapter in one of the longest continuous baseball traditions in the West

when unpaid players and Depression finances forced a mid-season move across the river to Council Bluffs

Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XL Cairo’s population has since dwindledThe 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