Austin Pioneers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:S The team was a New

The team was a New York Yankees affiliate in 1955

the same year Borden Park burned and had to be rebuilt for the following season

based in Jeanerette

and finished the year in San Francisco

The 1949 season would be Clarksville’s last with an affiliated minor league baseball team

Austin Pioneers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:S The team was a NewThe 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