The Oilers name proved to be Ventura's last stand as a solo baseball market
where it became the Thomasville Tomcats in 1952
The Tomcats brought baseball back to the city a year later as a fresh
The Gladewater Bears were a minor league baseball team from Gladewater
from 1935 through 1938
Austin Pioneers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Glassware The Oilers name proved toThe Austin Pioneers, based in Austin, Texas, were one of eight founding franchises of the Big State League in 1947, and their name came from a fan. Owner Edmund P. Knebel, a Seven Up bottling magnate, held a naming contest drawing nearly five hundred submissions, with fans voting "Pioneers" the winner. Knebel spent $200,000 of his own money in nine weeks to build Disch Field on a city owned tract, and the Pioneers opened on April 27, 1947, defeating