Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Williamson Red Birds affiliated with the Yankees and

affiliated with the Yankees and White Sox

the league disbanded after the 1908 season due to a lack of teams

and Minnesota as its core membership contracted in later years

played in the Evangeline League from 1946 through 1955

The Patriots won Piedmont League championships in 1920 and 1926

Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Williamson Red Birds affiliated with the Yankees andThe 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