Beaumont Exporters Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL played the 1956 and 1957

played the 1956 and 1957 seasons in the Class C California League

that final season making the playoffs before losing to the Cedar Rapids Cubs 3-0 in the finals

There were two iterations of the Welch Miners

The name is of course a play on the 'Cog' in Nacogdoches

going 86-62 and finishing first before falling in the league finals

Beaumont Exporters Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas Size:3XL played the 1956 and 1957The Beaumont Exporters, based in Beaumont, Texas, took their name from what the city did best. Beaumont's transformation began on January 10, 1901, when the Lucas Gusher blew in at Spindletop, touching off the Texas oil boom almost overnight and turning the city into one of the great petrochemical refining and shipping centers in the country. The Neches River connected Beaumont's refineries to the Gulf, and the crude that poured out of Southeast Texas