Texas Black Spiders 1938 Road Jersey Color_Purple also known as the “Seraphs

also known as the “Seraphs

Robinson formed the Jackie Robinson All-Stars

The original name of the club was Gold Star

The Padres continued on in the AAA PCL until a National League expansion franchise of the same name was granted for the 1969 season

Texas Black Spiders 1938 Road Jersey Color_Purple also known as the “SeraphsHistory: Like many barnstorming teams they were known by different names: The Mineola Black Spiders, The Ft. Worth Black Spiders, the Mason City Black Bats. In the golden age of black baseball, hitting the road and picking up games paid the bills and was often more important than a regular league schedule. The Black Spiders were seemingly everywhere between the 1920s and 1940s: Texas, Iowa, Mexico Then they vanished into the mists of history, like so