Waco Pirates Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Coffee Mugs who came through Salinas in

who came through Salinas in the Mariners years

then sat out 1954 under the Tifton Indians name before returning as the Blue Sox again in 1955

The Decatur Commodores

two eras that could hardly have less in common

The Wasps' final season proved historic

Waco Pirates Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Coffee Mugs who came through Salinas inThe Waco Pirates, based in Waco, Texas, gave the Big State League its most dramatic story across nine seasons from 1947 through 1956. The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947, when Monty Stratton, the Chicago White Sox pitcher who lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938, played for the club as part of his return to baseball on an artificial leg, a comeback that inspired the 1949 Jimmy Stewart film "The Stratton Story." The franchise