The Fort Pierce Bombers were a professional minor league baseball team based in

Fort Pierce, Florida Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. The city is part of the Treasure Coast region of Atlantic Coast Florida. It is also known as the Sunrise City, sister to San Francisco, California, the Suns ...

from 1940 until 1942. The clubs played in the Class-D

Florida East Coast League The Florida East Coast League was the name of two United States, American minor league baseball circuits based on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of Florida. The first edition of the league operated as a Class D (baseball), Class D level league ...

. The league and the team both shut their doors, along with many other minor leagues, a few months after the United States entered World War II, and, despite the postwar baseball boom, they were not revived.

References

*Johnson, Lloyd and Wolff, Miles, eds., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 3d edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007. Defunct minor league baseball teams Defunct baseball teams in Florida Fort Pierce, Florida Baseball teams disestablished in 1942 Baseball teams established in 1940 1940 establishments in Florida 1942 disestablishments in Florida {{Florida-baseball-team-stub