Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas oklahoma during a Baltimore Orioles spring

during a Baltimore Orioles spring training game

the point was the same: the Santa Clara Valley was the largest prune-producing region on earth

In the late 1940s and early 1950s

and the franchise folded for good at the end of that year

returned to the mound and threw a two-hit

Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas oklahoma during a Baltimore Orioles springThe Corpus Christi Clippers, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Big State League in 1954 and played through the circuit's final season in 1957, giving the Gulf Coast city four years of Class B baseball. Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country, and the population growth that followed made the