Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas oklahoma They lost out to Union

They lost out to Union City (IL) Greyhounds in 1952 and the Paducah Chiefs in the final in 1953

Hall of Famer Jim Bunning pitched for the Davenport Tigers in 1951 at age 19

during a Baltimore Orioles spring training game

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and the franchise folded for good at the end of that year

Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas oklahoma They lost out to UnionThe Corpus Christi Clippers, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Big State League in 1954 and played through the circuit's final season in 1957, giving the Gulf Coast city four years of Class B baseball. Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country, and the population growth that followed made the