Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas On Sale Their nickname reflected Moline’s booming

Their nickname reflected Moline’s booming tractor industry and its connection to John Deere

and the Gulf setting gave the franchise a coastal character that distinguished it from the inland Texas cities sharing the league

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and Lodi would wait six decades for professional baseball to return

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Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas On Sale Their nickname reflected Moline’s boomingThe 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