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winning league championships in both 1937 and 1942
and the Gulf setting gave the franchise a coastal character that distinguished it from the inland Texas cities sharing the league
Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas On Sale The retail fit that isThe 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