Within the last decade

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

inside look at that historic effort

From simple beginnings as the normal school with Principal Richard Thatcher instructing twenty-five students in the early 1890s to today s university of approximately 400 full-time faculty and almost 16

colleagues

Red Dirt Baseball: The First Decades 1904 - 1919 Reba Within the last decadeProfessional 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