one of several Big State League clubs the oil tycoon used to stock his higher-classification team
and won the Tri-State League championship in 1938 over the Sheboygan Chairmakers
Pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant went 19-3
” were a long-running minor league baseball team from Decatur that played from 1900-1974
Waycross Bears Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Forest Green one of several Big StateThe 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