the team became affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers and was renamed the Union City Dodgers
with brief affiliations to the Cubs and Athletics in the 1940s–50s
The Henderson Oilers minor league baseball team played in the East Texas League from 1931 through 1950
The Bowling Green Barons played in the Class D Kitty League from 1939 until the league’s suspension in 1942
Their brief existence came during a postwar boom when professional baseball rapidly expanded into small towns across America
Topeka Owls Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams Color:Sand the team became affiliated withThe Topeka Owls, based in Topeka, Kansas, played in the Class C Western Association from 1939 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1954. They were a St. Louis Browns affiliate in their first two seasons, then operated without a major league working agreement through the mid 1940s before affiliating with the Chicago Cubs in 1951 52 and the Chicago White Sox in 1953 54. Their home was Owl Ballpark on North Topeka Boulevard, which expanded from 2,750 to 4,700 seats