Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Union City Greyhounds and the team's old grounds

and the team's old grounds survive as Kimmell Park

The Eagles bounced between several Class D leagues before and after the Great Depression

the Oilworkers went 71-65 under manager John Grim

becoming the winningest manager in minor league history

Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Union City Greyhounds and the team's old groundsThe Corpus Christi Clippers, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Big State League in 1954 and played through the circuit's final season in 1957, giving the Gulf Coast city four years of Class B baseball. Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country, and the population growth that followed made the