A second Blue Sox team was revived briefly in 1919 and played in the New England League
Reno remains the only city outside California to host a California League team for more than a single season
Among the players who came through that postwar club was Jack Sanford
The first Smokies iteration produced just one major leaguer
Austin Pioneers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas visalia stars A second Blue Sox teamThe 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