Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas davenport river rats finishing out 1957 as the

finishing out 1957 as the Port Arthur Redlegs as the circuit contracted around them

The Owensboro Oilers were one of the most stable Kitty League teams

Their high water mark came in 1948 when they were champions of the Big State League under manager Jose Rodriguez

The Mission Reds remain a cult favorite of uniform collectors and PCL historians

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas davenport river rats finishing out 1957 as 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