he is credited with helping originate the spitball and went on to spend 22 years as an American League umpire
and it proved durable: Sacramento clubs would answer to Senators on and off for decades
319 as a team and produced one of the most famous seasons in minor league history: Ike Boone won the PCL Triple Crown with a
and were the league's first playoff champions
and Ponca City returned to organized ball the following year in the Sooner State League
Merced Fig Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:5XL he is credited with helpingThe 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