Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas 15 oz captured the spirit of that

captured the spirit of that era as well as any team that ever played in it

Low attendance and financial troubles forced the team to relocate to Morristown in 1954

The San Francisco Mission Reds played in the Pacific Coast League from 1926 through 1937

Dual side seams hold the garment's shape for longer

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas 15 oz captured the spirit of thatThe 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