Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Bestsellers The Salinas Spurs

The Salinas Spurs

were a winning franchise well before they arrived in the Big State League

The 1955 Kernels were ranked 30th on Minor League Baseball's all-time Top 100

These were nautical terms used during the baseball game

which provided uniforms and named the team after the Essex automobile

Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Bestsellers The Salinas SpursThe 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