Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas On Sale Pat Corrales

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Teams like the Rebels reflected the era’s deep ties between baseball and local identity

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 Pat CorralesThe 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