Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Cynthiana cobblers played in the Class A

played in the Class A Western League from 1956 to 1958 as a Milwaukee Braves affiliate

both Class D circuits serving small towns in Kentucky

reportedly to avoid the embarrassment of losing

Between stints as the Wilson Bugs in the Virginia League during the 1920s and a run in the Coastal Plain League starting in 1939

Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Cynthiana cobblers played in the Class AThe 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