The Austin Black Senators were a professional baseball team based in Austin, Texas which played in the Negro Leagues. The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts sometime in the early 1910s. The team started as an independent, then joined the Texas Negro League followed by the Texas-Oklahoma Negro League.
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