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The Berries started slowly
from Princeton
reducing the league's first campaign from eight teams to six
Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
000 fans jammed Oakland's Idora Park for one November game
Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas ada herefords The Berries started slowlyThe 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
