The Texarkana Bears minor league baseball team 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 1947 and 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 ...

from 1947 to 1953. It was based in the American city of

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. It was affiliated with the

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in 1946. In 1947, under manager

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, the club won the Big State League championships. It again won the championship in 1950, under manager

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