Fresno SunSox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Sand they joined the Appalachian League

they joined the Appalachian League

the same year Borden Park burned and had to be rebuilt for the following season

and in an era when the league's clubs regularly carried sponsor names

but lost to the Rocky Mount Rocks four games to one

The franchise itself was a bargain: when the league needed an eighth team for 1966

Fresno SunSox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California Color:Sand they joined the Appalachian LeagueThe 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