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reducing the league's first campaign from eight teams to six
they faced regional rivals like the Lexington Colts and Winchester Hustlers
from Princeton
The Missions name itself has deep baseball roots in the region
Austin Pioneers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas ada herefords reducing the league's first campaignThe 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
