Bakersfield Badgers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fresno sunsox three decades apart

three decades apart

who worked with High Point Enterprise sports editor Bill Curry to come up with a name that would represent both High Point and Thomasville

then fell in the postseason semifinals

The franchise arrived when the Riverside Red Wave was purchased and moved to the Mojave Desert by the Brett brothers

Bakersfield Badgers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California fresno sunsox three decades apartThe Bakersfield Badgers, based in Bakersfield, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit. The nickname came from a public naming contest run by general manager E. Lee Keyser, who received hundreds of suggestions from fans; Frank Stuart of Arvin Street was first to submit the winning name and collected a season's pass to all home games for it. The logic was pure Kern County: as one fan's letter put