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Frank Arellanes

In their first season

all-African-American squad formed around 1944 that played into the mid-1960s

and Senators from 1950 to 1966

With major leaguers moonlighting on both rosters

Lubbock Hubbers T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas santa barbara rancheros Frank ArellanesThe Lubbock Hubbers carried the "Hubbers" name for nearly two decades before their single Big State League season in 1956. The franchise had played in the West Texas New Mexico League from 1938 through 1942, resumed after the wartime suspension in 1946, and ran through 1955, thirteen seasons in all under the same name, before shifting to the Big State League. "Hubbers" came from Lubbock's self styled identity as the "Hub of the Plains," a reference to