Merced Bears - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt everett WI" above a posterized portrait

WI" above a posterized portrait of Roman Craig in a cap and sunglasses

Design inspired by Hank Kingsley from The Larry Sanders Show

they were neighborhood anchors

representing a small southwest Missouri town with outsized ambition

Somehow the books always looked cleaner than the people keeping them

Merced Bears - California - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Women's T-Shirt everett WI" above a posterized portraitMerced Bears took the field in 1941, bringing California League baseball to the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. During wartime and beyond, minor league clubs like this one gave small agricultural towns a shared identity and something to cheer for. Merced may have lost its team, but the memory of those summer nights never left. Part of our Defunct Baseball collection, inspired by the vintage Minor League teams of yesteryear. The Details: Orange arched