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when the Lakers joined from the Gulf Coast League

and when the Chicago affiliation lapsed for 1953 the club played as the Stars before the Cubs name returned the following year

Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California burlington flints heavyweight t-shirts that are durableThe 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