Red Dirt Baseball: The First Decades 1904 - 1919 Onesie double-glass doors stood proudly waiting

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Red Dirt Baseball: The First Decades 1904 - 1919 Onesie double-glass doors stood proudly waitingProfessional 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. Dozens of past and future Major Leaguers toiled in the bushes of the Sooner State. This book tells the story of those leagues and