Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks who arrived as a 17-year-old

who arrived as a 17-year-old pitcher in 1938 and blossomed into one of baseball’s greatest hitters

then affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1959-60) and Cleveland Indians (1961-66)

The Highlanders name returned in 1953 when the Carolina League's Fayetteville Athletics rebranded

and then joined the Carolina League in 1948

Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Mobile Baysharks who arrived as a 17-year-oldThe Waco Pirates, based in Waco, Texas, gave the Big State League its most dramatic story across nine seasons from 1947 through 1956. The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947, when Monty Stratton, the Chicago White Sox pitcher who lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938, played for the club as part of his return to baseball on an artificial leg, a comeback that inspired the 1949 Jimmy Stewart film "The Stratton Story." The franchise