Beaumont Exporters Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:S The Saints returned in 1942

The Saints returned in 1942 as one of only four teams to attempt the war-shortened season before the league suspended play entirely

and put six players on the Western League All-Star team

fielding teams in every version of the league from 1904 to 1954

and from 1946 to 1955

and played in the Triple I League from 1910-1914 and spent one year in the Eastern Illinois League in 1908

Beaumont Exporters Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:S The Saints returned in 1942The Beaumont Exporters, based in Beaumont, Texas, took their name from what the city did best. Beaumont's transformation began on January 10, 1901, when the Lucas Gusher blew in at Spindletop, touching off the Texas oil boom almost overnight and turning the city into one of the great petrochemical refining and shipping centers in the country. The Neches River connected Beaumont's refineries to the Gulf, and the crude that poured out of Southeast Texas