Gainesville Owls T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:2XL They played in a number

They played in a number of leagues between 1946-1957 including the East Texas League

A second Blue Sox team was revived briefly in 1919 and played in the New England League

posting a 96-44 record in 1951 and winning the first-half pennant

winning championships in 1949 and 1952

named for the team's longtime president and GM

Gainesville Owls T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:2XL They played in a numberThe Gainesville Owls, based in Gainesville, Texas, were one of eight founding franchises of the Big State League in 1947, giving the small Cooke County seat five seasons of professional baseball through 1951. Gainesville sits in North Texas near the Oklahoma border along the route of the historic Chisholm Trail, the cattle drive path that pushed longhorns north through the region in the decades after the Civil War, and the city's ranching and