Lubbock Hubbers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas madisonville miners 75 years in the making

75 years in the making

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

and though the identity lasted just one season

the Beardstown Infants moved to Jacksonville and also played as the Jacks

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

Lubbock Hubbers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas madisonville miners 75 years in the makingThe Lubbock Hubbers carried the "Hubbers" name for nearly two decades before their single Big State League season in 1956. The franchise had played in the West Texas New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942, resumed after the wartime suspension in 1946, and ran through 1955, thirteen seasons in all under the same name, before shifting to the Big State League. "Hubbers" came from Lubbock's self styled identity as the "Hub of the Plains," a reference to