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Professional baseball came back to the city in pieces: the Hannibal Pilots (1947-48)

The Oilers name proved to be Ventura's last stand as a solo baseball market

The 1960 team went 64-74 under Andy Seminick

from 1935 through 1938

Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Glassware The shoulders have tape forThe 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