Amarillo Gold Sox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L For the 1949 season

For the 1949 season

but lost to the Rocky Mount Rocks four games to one

We traced the name's strange

Rayne farmers and locals had called the bird the "rice bird" for generations

winning pennants in 1947 and 1950

Amarillo Gold Sox T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:L For the 1949 seasonThe Amarillo Gold Sox took their name from their Texas Panhandle city; Amarillo is Spanish for yellow, and the club leaned into the golden connection. Amarillo had fielded Gold Sox teams in the West Texas New Mexico League from 1939 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1955, and when that league folded, the club kept professional baseball alive in the Panhandle by moving up to the Class A Western League in 1956. The move paid off immediately. Playing as an