Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black 271 at the plate

271 at the plate

leading the league in attendance that year with over 81

Tony Kubek

based in Ardmore

Under the Pelicans name

Waycross Bears T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Georgia Color:Black 271 at the plateThe 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