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The franchise had operated the previous season as the Victoria Eagles before adopting the Rosebuds name for 1957

a small circuit that had a number of similar teams from the region

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The second Bees era produced one of the strangest teams in baseball history

Merced Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California ohio The franchise had operated theThe Merced Bears, based in Merced, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit, and were fittingly a farm club of the Boston Bees, as the Boston Braves were then briefly known. Merced was the smallest market among the eight founding cities, and the Bears struggled accordingly, finishing last at 50 86, a full 38 games behind pennant winning Fresno. That one season was the whole story. When World War