Baseball artifacts from Houma's Evangeline League era are preserved in the Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University in nearby Thibodaux
Missouri the following year to become the Joplin Ozarks
The Tobs won the 1959 Carolina League championship
first the Merchants in 1910
was home to one of the finest teams in minor league history
Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:4XL Baseball artifacts from Houma's EvangelineThe 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