Austin Black Senators Baseball - Austin, Texas (1920s-40s) 3/4 tee sport Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt

He started selling the balls out of the trunk of his car

"A bird may be going away at tremendous speed

After a dozen years serving it up

We just gave it a name

Austin Black Senators Baseball - Austin, Texas (1920s-40s) 3/4 tee sport Townes Van ZandtAustin Black Senators Austin's only professional sports team in the 1920s and 1930s, its roster included Austin native (and future Baseball Hall of Fame inductee) Willie Wells, considered by many who saw him as one of the best shortstops to ever play. The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas that adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The earliest known published reference to