Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:4XL all-African-American squad formed around 1944

all-African-American squad formed around 1944 that played into the mid-1960s

first the Merchants in 1910

On the field

played in the Class A Western League from 1956 to 1958 as a Milwaukee Braves affiliate

the franchise claimed the 1954 Evangeline League championship

Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:4XL all-African-American squad formed around 1944The Waycross Bears, based in Waycross, Georgia, were the Georgia Florida League's dominant franchise, winning five championships across their run from 1939 through 1955: 1940, 1942, 1948, 1949, and 1951. Waycross sat at the northern edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia, and the Bears drew the league's highest single season attendance in 1939 at 85,566 fans. Baseball in Waycross long predated the Bears. In the 1920s, Shoeless Joe