Waco Pirates Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas dubuque packers The franchise that was the

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Manager Johnny Keane guided the club in 1938 before remaining as the franchise became the Albany Cardinals as a St

Waco Pirates Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas dubuque packers The franchise that was theThe 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