Fresno SunSox Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California amarillo gold sox often as a Chicago White

often as a Chicago White Sox affiliate with uniforms in navy

Notable alumni included Don Larsen

in the late 1950s and early 60s there was another team from Clay City that played amateur or semi-pro ball in the Central Kentucky Baseball League

While the Rivermen did not produce any nationally known stars

Fresno SunSox Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California amarillo gold sox often as a Chicago WhiteThe 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