Gainesville Owls Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L averaging only a few hundred

averaging only a few hundred fans per game

The franchise itself was a bargain: when the league needed an eighth team for 1966

This design's mascot draws on the towel-and-textile identity of Martinsville's mills

competing in the California League circuits of 1899 (as the Beachcombers) and 1908-09 (as the Sand Crabs)

The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947

Gainesville Owls Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L averaging only a few hundredThe 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