Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas cedar rapids rabbits and was named the league's

and was named the league's Player of the Year

by then renamed the Giants

the WPA-built ballpark that opened in 1942 and still hosts California League baseball today

good for third place in the eight-team league

Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas cedar rapids rabbits and was named the league'sThe Waco Pirates, based in Waco, Texas, gave the Big State League its most dramatic story across nine seasons from 1947 through 1956. The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947, when Monty Stratton, the Chicago White Sox pitcher who lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938, played for the club as part of his return to baseball on an artificial leg, a comeback that inspired the 1949 Jimmy Stewart film "The Stratton Story." The franchise