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Moving to the Gulf Coast League the following year

The Big Stone Gap Rebels were a minor league baseball team from Big Stone Gap

Utah businessman Bill "Hardpan" Lane bought the club and moved it to Salt Lake City as the Bees

The Saints returned in 1942 as one of only four teams to attempt the war-shortened season before the league suspended play entirely

Waco Pirates T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:S Wasps box scores read likeThe Waco Pirates, based in Waco, Texas, gave the Big State League its most dramatic story across nine seasons from 1947 through 1956. The franchise opened under the Dons name in 1947, when Monty Stratton, the Chicago White Sox pitcher who lost his leg in a hunting accident in 1938, played for the club as part of his return to baseball on an artificial leg, a comeback that inspired the 1949 Jimmy Stewart film "The Stratton Story." The franchise