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- Big_State_League abstract "The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. It saw a lot of transition in its 11-year lifetime, with no team serving as a member in every single season. Waco came the closest, serving from 1947–1956. The league was known as an offense-oriented circuit.The league debuted at the height of the short-lived postwar minor league baseball boom, in 1947, with eight clubs, all unaffiliated with Major League Baseball farm systems. Two clubs, Texarkana and Greenville, won more than 100 games, and four league members exceeded 100,000 in attendance. But beginning in 1953, the Big State League's teams struggled to reach six figures in that category. Only Corpus Christi drew over the 100,000 mark during the league's final five seasons, doing so on two occasions. The league was further weakened when a traditionally strong member, Austin, moved up to the AA Texas League in 1956.The league began the 1957 campaign with only six clubs, and its ranks were reduced to four when Wichita Falls disbanded in May, while the Port Arthur team moved to Temple that same month before folding in August. Of the surviving teams, Victoria, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team, outlasted Corpus Christi, Beaumont and Abilene to win the league's last pennant and playoff championship.J. Walter Morris served as League President from 1947 through 1950,Howard Green, took over from 1951 through 1955 and Hal Sayles was incharge the final two years, 1956-57.".
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- Big_State_League wikiPageRevisionID "691212325".
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink 1947_in_baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink 1953_in_baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink 1956_in_baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink 1957_in_baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Abilene,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Abilene_Blue_Sox.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Austin,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Austin_Pioneers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Baseball_America.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Beaumont,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Beaumont_Pirates.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Big_State_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Bryan,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Bryan_Indians.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Bryan_Majors.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Category:1947_establishments_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Category:1957_disestablishments_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Category:Baseball_leagues_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_minor_baseball_leagues_in_the_United_States.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sports_leagues_established_in_1947.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Corpus_Christi,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Corpus_Christi_Clippers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Del_Rio,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Del_Rio_Indians.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Denison,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink East_Texas_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Evangeline_Baseball_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Farm_team.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Gainesville,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Gainesville_Owls.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Galveston,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Greenville,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Greenville_Majors.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_Coast_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Harlingen,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Harlingen_Capitals.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink History_of_the_Brooklyn_Dodgers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Longhorn_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Longview,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Longview_Cherokees.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Lubbock,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Lubbock_Hubbers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Major_League_Baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Minor_League_Baseball.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Paris,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Paris_Indians.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Paris_Panthers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Paris_Red_Peppers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Port_Arthur,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Port_Arthur_Redlegs.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Port_Arthur_Sea_Hawks.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Rio_Grande_Valley_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Sherman,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Sherman-Denison_Twins.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Temple,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Temple_Eagles.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Temple_Redlegs.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texarkana,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texarkana_Bears.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texas_City,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texas_City_Exporters.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texas_City_Hubbers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Texas_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Tyler,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Tyler_East_Texans.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Tyler_Tigers.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Victoria,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Victoria_Rosebuds.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Waco,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Waco_Pirates.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink West_Texas–New_Mexico_League.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Wichita_Falls,_Texas.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink Wichita_Falls_Spudders.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLinkText "Big State League".
- Big_State_League wikiPageWikiLinkText "Big State League#Cities Represented".
- Big_State_League wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Distinguish.
- Big_State_League wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Professional_Baseball.
- Big_State_League subject Category:1947_establishments_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League subject Category:1957_disestablishments_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League subject Category:Baseball_leagues_in_Texas.
- Big_State_League subject Category:Defunct_minor_baseball_leagues_in_the_United_States.
- Big_State_League subject Category:Sports_leagues_established_in_1947.
- Big_State_League hypernym Circuit.
- Big_State_League type BaseballLeague.
- Big_State_League type SoccerClub.
- Big_State_League type League.
- Big_State_League type Thing.
- Big_State_League comment "The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. It saw a lot of transition in its 11-year lifetime, with no team serving as a member in every single season. Waco came the closest, serving from 1947–1956.".
- Big_State_League label "Big State League".
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