Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL The name is a small

The name is a small masterpiece of local truth: before Lodi became synonymous with wine grapes

The pre-war circuit reached its tentacles into places like this not through proximity but through baseball's hunger for cities wherever someone would build a grandstand and sell a ticket

Consistently outdrawn even while sharing Seals Stadium after 1931

the Smokies remain a cherished memory for locals who long for the return of pro baseball

Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL The name is a smallThe Wichita Falls Spudders carried one of the most distinctive names in Texas minor league baseball across nearly four decades. "Spudders" has nothing to do with potatoes: in the oil industry, to "spud" a well means to begin drilling it, and a spudder is the rig used for that initial phase. The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920, won the league championship in 1927, and joined the Big State League as a founding member in 1947. Frank Saucier