Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Color:Brown Made from 100% Airlume combed

Made from 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton

based in Thomasville

The franchise folded after winning that 1951 championship

and ran through 1955

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Color:Brown Made from 100% Airlume combedThe 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