The team became a Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate from 1953 through the Sooner State League's final 1957 season
The Three-I League was a prominent Midwestern minor league that reflected the popularity of small-town baseball before the rise of television entertainment
Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford
The franchise ended when the KITTY League folded in 1955
the same year Casey Stengel debuted against them
Fresno SunSox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:5XL The team became a BrooklynThe Fresno SunSox, based in Fresno, California, played the 1957 season in the Class C California League, a one year identity bridging two long eras of Fresno baseball. For the previous decade and a half the club had been the Fresno Cardinals, owned outright by St. Louis, but the Cardinals scaled back their farm system after 1956 and sold the team to the Greater Fresno Youth Foundation. Operating in 1957 without a major league affiliation, working