The Spudders won the 1953 Big State League championship before a disastrous 27-109 Longhorn League season in 1954
with ballgrounds sitting near the waterfront where coastal winds off Monterey Bay played havoc with fly balls
playing for a stretch as the Peoria Distillers before moving back to Marion and closing out the year as the Oilworkers once more
Baseball in Keokuk ran far deeper than the Kernels era: the 1875 Keokuk Westerns were among the founding members of the National Association
the Blue Sox led the league with a 32-20 record before the league folded
Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks The Spudders won the 1953The 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