Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas california league remembered both for his toughness

remembered both for his toughness on the field and a series of off-field altercations and arrests

giving the city a baseball history that spans four names

playing for a stretch as the Peoria Distillers before moving back to Marion and closing out the year as the Oilworkers once more

before folding with the rest of the league in 1955

Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas california league remembered both for his toughnessThe 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