Amarillo Gold Sox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L Rayne farmers and locals had

Rayne farmers and locals had called the bird the "rice bird" for generations

They played in the Appalachian League from 1937–42 and the Mountain States League from 1948–50

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who went 13-5 as a 1961 AL All-Star for Cleveland

Amarillo Gold Sox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L Rayne farmers and locals hadThe Amarillo Gold Sox took their name from their Texas Panhandle city; Amarillo is Spanish for yellow, and the club leaned into the golden connection. Amarillo had fielded Gold Sox teams in the West Texas New Mexico League from 1939 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1955, and when that league folded, the club kept professional baseball alive in the Panhandle by moving up to the Class A Western League in 1956. The move paid off immediately. Playing as an