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The young boy who was afraid to open his mouth lest his friends ridicule him

Red Dirt Baseball: The First Decades 1904 - 1919 Reba Kirkpatrick saidProfessional 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