Corpus Christi Clippers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L A decade later the district

A decade later the district got its own team for good when the Mission Bells arrived in 1926

and the crude that poured out of Southeast Texas poured out through Beaumont's docks

The Harlingen Capitals

were one of eight founding franchises of the Big State League in 1947

including Jake Vatter

Corpus Christi Clippers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L A decade later the districtThe Corpus Christi Clippers, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Big State League in 1954 and played through the circuit's final season in 1957, giving the Gulf Coast city four years of Class B baseball. Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country, and the population growth that followed made the