Bakersfield Badgers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XS featuring the club's lettuce-head batter

featuring the club's lettuce-head batter

Kentucky minor league team was known primarily as the Chiefs

The franchise had played in the West Texas-New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942

under general manager Harding "Pete" Peterson

Bakersfield Badgers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Size:XS featuring the club's lettuce-head batterThe Bakersfield Badgers, based in Bakersfield, California, were a charter member of the California League, founded in 1941 as a Class C circuit. The nickname came from a public naming contest run by general manager E. Lee Keyser, who received hundreds of suggestions from fans; Frank Stuart of Arvin Street was first to submit the winning name and collected a season's pass to all home games for it. The logic was pure Kern County: as one fan's letter put