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Corpus Christi Clippers Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas oklahoma bridging the gap between theThe Corpus Christi Clippers, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Big State League in 1954 and played through the circuit's final season in 1957, giving the Gulf Coast city four years of Class B baseball. Corpus Christi's identity had been reshaped during World War II by Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country, and the population growth that followed made the