Tag: Independent Baseball

1977 Texas City Stars baseball program from the Lone Star League

Texas City Stars

The Texas City Stars were an obscure minor league baseball team that lasted for just one season in the summer of 1977.  The Stars were part of the Lone Star League, a Texas-only circuit that played at the Class A level.  All six Lone Star League clubs were “independent”, meaning they had no Major League parent club affiliations. The Stars had a record of 35-41 in their only season of play, good for 5th place in the six-team league.  The entire Lone Star League effectively folded after the first place Corpus Christi Seagulls refused to play in the 1977 playoffs for financial reasons.

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Portland Mavericks

The Portland Mavericks. This renegade ball club existed for only five summers, but managed to leave an indelible stamp (their contemporary detractors might have said “stain”) on the landscape of minor league baseball.  The Mavs came to town in 1973 after the Beavers, Portland’s long-time entry in the Pacific Coast League, moved to Spokane, Washington. It didn’t seem like a promising trade-off for Portland baseball fans …at least, not at first. 

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