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Along with the Texas League, there have been many baseball leagues that briefly existed in Texas or included at least one team from the Lone Star State such as: Lone Star Colored League of Texas, [9] Negro American League, Colored Texas League, Texas Negro League, Texas-Oklahoma Negro League, South Texas Negro League, [10] West Texas Negro ...
Minor league baseball began in Temple, Texas with the 1905 Temple Boll Weevils, who played as members of the Class C level Texas League. [1] [2] Several other minor league teams later played in Temple, preceding the Temple Eagles, including the "Temple Tigers" [3] and "Temple Governors", who played as members of the Class D level Middle Texas League in 1914 and 1915, [4] [5] the Temple ...
Baseball is also popular in Texas. The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros are the two Texan teams in the Major League Baseball. At minor league baseball, Texas has three teams in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League and five in the Double-A Texas League. Another popular sport in Texas is golf, played year-round because of the South's humid climate.
Check out what life was like in North Texas town of Weatherford, the Parker County seat since the mid-1800s. We assembled these photos from the Star-Telegram archives.
The earliest known mention of baseball in the US is either a 1786 diary entry by a Princeton University student who describes playing "baste ball," [1] or a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance that barred the playing of baseball within 80 yards (73 m) of the town meeting house and its glass windows. [2]
The Fort Worth Cats was a professional baseball team based in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States. The Cats were a member of the South Division of the now disbanded United League Baseball, which was not affiliated with Major League Baseball. From 2002 to 2014, the Cats played their home games at LaGrave Field.
Pages in category "Professional baseball teams in Texas" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Six Flags opened in 1961 in Arlington. These photos from the Star-Telegram show long-gone rides, historic moments and fun memories from the 1960s into into 2010s.