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Victoria Rosebuds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas bi-state league Shawnee was one of onlyThe Victoria Rosebuds, based in Victoria, Texas, played a single season in the Big State League in 1957, one of only four franchises to complete that final, truncated campaign as the circuit dissolved around them. Victoria sits in South Texas between the Gulf Coast and the San Antonio hill country, a ranching and agricultural hub whose economy ran more toward cattle and oil than flowers, which made the "Rosebuds" nickname an outlier in a region full