Austin (TX) Pioneers Baseball Club 1947-1955 tee

This design is based on a sign that hung outside the Austin Pioneers Baseball Club offices in Austin. Choose the full size or pocket size design for your tee. In 1947, 7UP and Nu-Grape soft drink bottler Ed Knebel financed the construction of Disch Field and brought organized baseball back to Austin with the Class B Austin Pioneers. The Pioneers were one of the eight original teams that formed the Big State League, the minor league baseball circuit featuring clubs exclusively based in Texas. The Austin Pioneers played from 1947 to 1955, against their Texas opponents: Gainesville Owls, Greenville Majors, Paris Red Peppers, Sherman–Denison Twins, Texarkana Bears, Waco Dons and Wichita Falls Spudders (a reference to the oil field workers that were common to the area and their referring to drilling a well as "spudding" and the workers that did that "Spudders"). The Pioneers never finished higher than 4th place in the Big State League standings during their nine seasons of play in the lea