Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas california league based in Shawnee

based in Shawnee

heavy cotton tee

Waterloo returned to professional baseball in 1958 under a different name and affiliation

before folding with the rest of the league in 1955

"sport" was a casual

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas california league based in ShawneeThe 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