Waco Pirates Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:2XL The team wore the word

The team wore the word 'Shelbys' on the front of the uniform or in some photos a stylized 'G'

defeating Evansville and Decatur during their postseason run

Tommy Harper won the league MVP that year and went on to a long major league career

and Ponca City returned to organized ball the following year in the Sooner State League

to pay homage to the area's roots

Waco Pirates Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:2XL The team wore the wordThe 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