Fresno Raisin Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Paris Travelers The Gladewater Bears were a

The Gladewater Bears were a minor league baseball team from Gladewater

The Blues joined the league for the 1917 season

When the Blaze folded after the 2016 season

arriving after the city's earlier Western League and Western Association teams (the Jayhawks

Fresno Raisin Growers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Paris Travelers The Gladewater Bears were aThe Fresno Raisin Growers, based in Fresno, California, played the 1909 season in the California League, during the era when the circuit operated as an independent "outlaw" league outside Organized Baseball. The name was no invention: Fresno was then, as now, the raisin capital of the world, and the club followed the 1908 Fresno Tigers as the city's entry in the league's final season before it folded under pressure from the Pacific Coast League.