Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Color:Sport Grey the franchise returned under a

the franchise returned under a succession of affiliations: White Sox in 1946

The name had a parallel history that ran alongside the white professional franchise

who later threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series

pitched against the Blues in 1941 as a member of the visiting Evansville Bees

Wichita Falls Spudders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Color:Sport Grey the franchise returned under aThe Wichita Falls Spudders carried one of the most distinctive names in Texas minor league baseball across nearly four decades. "Spudders" has nothing to do with potatoes: in the oil industry, to "spud" a well means to begin drilling it, and a spudder is the rig used for that initial phase. The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920, won the league championship in 1927, and joined the Big State League as a founding member in 1947. Frank Saucier