{"product_id":"lubbock-hubbers-crewneck-sweatshirt-vintage-defunct-baseball-teams-texas","title":"Lubbock Hubbers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lubbock Hubbers carried the \"Hubbers\" name for nearly two decades before their single Big State League season in 1956. The franchise had played in the West Texas-New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942, resumed after the wartime suspension in 1946, and ran through 1955, thirteen seasons in all under the same name, before shifting to the Big State League. \"Hubbers\" came from Lubbock's self-styled identity as the \"Hub of the Plains,\" a reference to its role as the commercial and agricultural center of the South Plains cotton country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name had a parallel history that ran alongside the white professional franchise. The Lubbock Black Hubbers, a semi-pro team founded in the late 1920s by Bob and Earl Johnson, played on a field between College Avenue and the Clovis Highway and were considered one of the most outstanding Black baseball teams in Texas, competing against other Black teams across the region. The white Hubbers refused to sign Black players. According to local accounts, an arranged game between the two clubs was called off by the white Hubbers around the fourth or fifth inning, reportedly to avoid the embarrassment of losing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNineteen fifty-six also happened to be the year a nineteen-year-old Lubbock musician named Buddy Holly was beginning to record in earnest, cutting the sessions that would lead to Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico and produce the records that made him famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design leans into the ranching and agricultural identity that defined the South Plains around Lubbock. A flat-brimmed cowboy figure leaning on a bat represents the kind of character you would find on any cotton farm or cattle spread across the Llano Estacado in the 1950s. The \"Hub of the Plains\" identity was agricultural as much as commercial, and the working ranch country surrounding the city provided the visual character the Hubbers name alone could not quite supply on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Big State League was a Class B circuit that ran from 1947 through 1957, fielding teams exclusively from across Texas. Named for the state's reputation as the nation's largest, the league stretched from the Gulf Coast to the plains of West Texas, bringing professional baseball to cities the higher-classification Texas League had never reached.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n    \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetro Baseball Revival celebrates historic baseball teams with unique apparel, honoring their legacy and bringing history to one-of-a-kind clothing with our old school retro baseball tees from defunct Minor League Baseball teams. All of our high quality apparel is designed, printed, and shipped within the USA. This collection features 100% original designs based on the history and nicknames of historic minor league teams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur crewneck sweatshirts are classics that anyone is sure to recognize. They are thick, durable Gildan brand crews. 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