Corpus Christi Clippers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas owingsville merchants though Martinsville lost the championship

though Martinsville lost the championship series to the Danville-Schoolfield Leafs

" a reference to its role as the commercial and agricultural center of the South Plains cotton country

The 1911 Miners picked up and moved to Jackson

touching off the Texas oil boom almost overnight and turning the city into one of the great petrochemical refining and shipping centers in the country

then continued through the Big State League's final two seasons under different names

Corpus Christi Clippers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas owingsville merchants though Martinsville lost the championshipThe 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