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Austin Black Senators Baseball - Austin, Texas (1920s-40s) 3/4 tee sport "A bird may be goingAustin Black Senators Austin's only professional sports team in the 1920s and 1930s, its roster included Austin native (and future Baseball Hall of Fame inductee) Willie Wells, considered by many who saw him as one of the best shortstops to ever play. The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas that adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The earliest known published reference to