The Paris Rockets were a Class-B minor league baseball team that played in the

Big State League The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B level circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. The Corpus Christi Clippers (1955-1956), Texark ...

in 1948. The team, managed by

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, was based in

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and featured future and/or former

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players

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, Frank Carswell,

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, Dave Short, Jim Walkup and

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/ref> The team finished with a win-loss record of 62-85, placing 6th in the league, in its only year of existence under that nickname.

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