Galveston White Caps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas maine Cuban pitcher Juan Torres threw

Cuban pitcher Juan Torres threw a no-hitter on opening day

and neighboring states

The Spudders won the 1953 Big State League championship before a disastrous 27-109 Longhorn League season in 1954

27 home runs

The CKBL was much more localized as this team played teams from Irvine

Galveston White Caps Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas maine Cuban pitcher Juan Torres threwGalveston had one of the oldest baseball traditions in Texas, with teams on the island going back to the nineteenth century and a long history in the Texas League, but the city that greeted the White Caps in 1954 was still living with the long shadow of September 8, 1900, when the deadliest natural disaster in American history came ashore and killed an estimated six to twelve thousand people in a matter of hours. The hurricane permanently altered