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The Fresno SunSox

The franchise operated as a farm club of Dick Burnett's Dallas operation during part of its Gulf Coast tenure

before the city's franchise continued as the Oilers from 1954 through 1957

and returned to the playoffs in 1953 behind Ron Slawski and Bob Norden

Lincoln Antelopes T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Nebraska Covington Blue Sox The Fresno SunSoxThe Lincoln Antelopes of Lincoln, Nebraska are a team where the record books and the newspapers disagree, and we side with the newspapers. Most modern references list Lincoln's Western League club of 1910 to 1912 as the Railsplitters, a tidy tribute to the city's namesake. But the Lincoln papers of those seasons tell a different story: day after day, the team was the Antelopes, often shortened to the Lopes, named for the pronghorn that ran the