Before there were Houston Astros or Texas Rangers, there were minor-league baseball teams...
held their ground
It was “a perfectly good playing field,” according to the San Antonio Express, June 23, 1925, “and the largest park in the Texas League, pitchers be amply protected against untimely home-run drives.” For the fans, concessionaires provided “a distinctive Mexican atmosphere given by three brands of tamales offered” - Smith’s, Charlie’s and Duran’s - that ran “from hot, hotter to hottest.”The Bears’ uniforms were white with blue pinstripes, blue caps and blue-and-white stockings.
Some of the Bears’ standout players had big-league experience before or after their time in San Antonio. Ike Boone, a former college star, had done a brief stintbefore their manager John McGraw sent him to Bears’ owner Harry Benson as a potential hitting powerhouse. Boone lived up to the hype and led the Texas League with a batting average of.402 … and left at the end of the 1923 season for the Boston Red Sox. During his single season here, however, the Bears finished with a middling record.
Perhaps the most memorable of all Bears was the player said to be nicknamed for a rabbit. This was Leonardo “Leo Najo” Alaniz , the
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