Red dirt baseball, the first decades
Subtitle: small town professional baseball in Oklahoma, 1904-1919
By: by Peter G. Pierce
Contributors: Oklahoma Heritage Association
Publisher: Oklahoma Heritage Association
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oklahoma City, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781938923050
Subjects: Minor league baseball; History; Baseball
Description: Professional baseball came to the Twin Territories in 1904 with Oklahoma City, Guthrie, Enid, Chickasha, and Shawnee appearing in the Southwestern League and Ardmore, I.T. making a brief appearance in the Texas League. Twenty-eight Oklahoma cities and towns fielded teams in eleven different leagues between 1904 and 1919. This book tells the story of those leagues and scores of the ball clubs from Altus to Vinita along with hundreds of photos of towns, teams, and players.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Leagues: Southwestern League, 1904; title: Texas League, 1904; title: Western Association, 1905-1911; title: Missouri Valley League, 1905; title: South Central League, 1906; title: Kansas State League, 1906; title: Oklahoma-Arkansas-Kansas League, 1907; title: Oklahoma-Kansas League, 1908; title: Texas-Oklahoma League, 1911-1914; title: Oklahoma State League, 1912; title: Western Association, 1914-1917; title: Cities: Altus, 1911; title: Anadarko, 1912; title: Ardmore, 1904, 1911-1914, 1917; title: Chickasha, 1904; title: Durant, 1911-1914; title: El Reno, 1909-1910; title: Eufaula, 1912; title: Guthrie, 1904-1906, 1909-1910, 1912, 1914; title: Henryetta, 1914; title: Holdenville, 1912; title: Hugo, 1913-1914; title: Lawton, 1911; title: Okmulgee, 1912; title: Sapulpa, 1909-1911; title: Shawnee, 1904, 1906; title: South Mcalester, 1905-1906; title: Vinita, 1905-1906.