Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies The Versailles Aristocrats were a

The Versailles Aristocrats were a Class D minor league baseball team based in Versailles

and then the city waited 37 years for professional baseball to return

From 1977 through 1978

managed by Walton Goldsby

but the Packers were a distinct later franchise built around a different era of Midwest baseball

Merced Fig Growers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California olive hill brickies The Versailles Aristocrats were aThe 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