Baseball in the Cross Timbers
Subtitle: the story of the Sooner State League
By: Peter G. Pierce
Contributors: Oklahoma Heritage Association
Series: Oklahoma Horizons series; Oklahoma horizons series
Publisher: [Oklahoma Heritage Association]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Oklahoma City, Okla.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781885596741
Subjects: Minor league baseball; Baseball; History; Ligues mineures (Base-Ball); Sooner State League (Baseball league)
Description: A history of "the Sooner State League [which] operated for eleven seasons between 1947 and 1957 ... the short 1961 season of Ardmore Rosebuds, the last small-town minor league team in Oklahoma."
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Before the war and beyond the big cities; title: Inventing a league; title: League officials; title: League in operation; title: Cities and franchises; title: Ball parks; title: Managers; title: Owners; title: Umpires; title: Dream come true: those who made "the show"; title: Nothing but a dream: those who tried; title: Dream finished: on the way down; title: Teams and seasons; title: The last hurrah: the short season of The Rosebuds