the franchise claimed the 1954 Evangeline League championship
Missouri the following year to become the Joplin Ozarks
Baseball artifacts from Houma's Evangeline League era are preserved in the Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University in nearby Thibodaux
played in the Class A Western League from 1956 to 1958 as a Milwaukee Braves affiliate
On the field
Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Size:4XL the franchise claimed the 1954The 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