Red Dirt Baseball-The First Decades: Small Town Professional Baseball in Oklahoma 1904-1919

Peter G. Pierce

ISBN 10: 1938923057 / ISBN 13: 9781938923050

Published by Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Dirt Baseball-The First Decades: Small Town Professional Baseball in Oklahoma 1904-1919
• Publisher: Oklahoma Heritage Association
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938923057
• ISBN 13: 9781938923050
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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. Dozens of past and future Major Leaguers toiled in the bushes of the Sooner State. This book tells the story of those leagues and scores of ball clubs from Altus to Vinita along with hundreds of photos of towns, teams, and players.

About the Author

Peter G. Pierce is a fourth generation Oklahoman. After studying Classical Languages at the University of Oklahoma and law at the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, he practiced commercial law and litigation for 16 years while teaching authoring a number of published articles on law and banking. He was actively involved in community banking through 2000 and, following a sabbatical, became chairman and president of First Bethany Bancorp. He teaches a popular course for graduating seniors at the University of Oklahoma called LIFE AFTER OU - A SURVIVAL GUIDE and a junior level History of Baseball course. He is the author of the Red Dirt Baseball series about the history of minor league baseball in Oklahoma, including BASEBALL IN THE CROSS TIMBERS: THE STORY OF THE SOONER STATE LEAGUE, two volumes on Ardmore s baseball, TERRITORIANS TO BOOMERS, 1904-1926 and INDIANS, CARDINALS, AND ROSEBUDS, 1947-1961, and EIGHT SEASONS OF THE HEREFORDS: RED DIRT BASEBALL IN ADA. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Pierce lives in Norman, Oklahoma, and New Orleans, Louisiana.