San Bernardino Spirit Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California bloomington bloomers The Bees were part of

The Bees were part of a wave of small-town teams in the 1930s as baseball thrived as America’s pastime and a popular recreational outlet

The 1916 team's season ended somewhere else entirely: the franchise relocated to Colorado Springs that September and finished the year as the Millionaires

making it unclear if they were new franchises or rebranded versions of earlier ones

The nickname came from a public naming contest run by general manager E

played for Topeka in 1886

San Bernardino Spirit Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - California bloomington bloomers The Bees were part ofThe San Bernardino Spirit, based in San Bernardino, California, brought professional baseball back to the city in 1987 after a 37 year absence, playing at Fiscalini Field, the renovated ballpark at Perris Hill. The Spirit ran through 1992 before the franchise relocated to a new stadium in Rancho Cucamonga, and the name carried on at Fiscalini Field through 1995 when the incoming Salinas franchise adopted it. The Spirit's place in baseball history was