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though neither of those seasons produced a championship
The Spudders won the 1953 Big State League championship before a disastrous 27-109 Longhorn League season in 1954
the Blue Sox led the league with a 32-20 record before the league folded
the franchise
Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks though neither of those seasonsThe 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