The league was further weakened when a traditionally strong member, Austin, moved up to the AA Texas League in 1956.
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But beginning in 1953, the Big State League's teams struggled to reach six figures in that category.
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The league began the 1957 campaign with only six clubs, and its ranks were reduced to four when Wichita Falls disbanded in May, while the Port Arthur team moved to Temple that same month before folding in August.
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The league debuted at the height of the short-lived postwar minor league baseball boom, in 1947, with eight clubs, all unaffiliated with Major League Baseball farm systems.
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