Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks the Blue Sox led the

the Blue Sox led the league with a 32-20 record before the league folded

The Spudders won the 1953 Big State League championship before a disastrous 27-109 Longhorn League season in 1954

with ballgrounds sitting near the waterfront where coastal winds off Monterey Bay played havoc with fly balls

They played in the Appalachian League from 1937–42 and the Mountain States League from 1948–50

playing for a stretch as the Peoria Distillers before moving back to Marion and closing out the year as the Oilworkers once more

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks the Blue Sox led theThe Austin Pioneers, based in Austin, Texas, were one of eight founding franchises of the Big State League in 1947, and their name came from a fan. Owner Edmund P. Knebel, a Seven Up bottling magnate, held a naming contest drawing nearly five hundred submissions, with fans voting "Pioneers" the winner. Knebel spent $200,000 of his own money in nine weeks to build Disch Field on a city owned tract, and the Pioneers opened on April 27, 1947, defeating