The Jacksonville Tomato Pickers were a minor league baseball team based in

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that played in the

East Texas League The East Texas League was a Texas–based minor league baseball league that existed between 1916 to 1950. The East Texas League played as a Class D level league in 1916 and from 1923 to 1926. The league became a Class C level league from 1936 ...

in 1916. It was the first known professional baseball team to be based in Jacksonville, and would be the last until the

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of the

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were formed in 1934. The team was managed by

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