Fresno Raisin Growers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Harrisburg Coal Miners Valdosta was one of only

Valdosta was one of only a handful of GFL cities to field teams in both the league's original 1939-42 run and its full postwar era through 1958

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Fresno Raisin Growers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Harrisburg Coal Miners Valdosta was one of onlyThe 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.