Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Whole town cheered on the baseball team in 1914
Baseball was king in Odessa in 1914 and for many years before and after that.
Odessa was a member of the Big Bend League, which included such other contenders as Krupp (Marlin), Wilson Creek, Ritzville and Ephrata.
The whole town turned out for the games. In fact, almost the whole town went along to the other towns to cheer the team. A special Great Northern train would be chartered to take them there.
April 5 was the opening day of league play in 1914, with Odessa playing Wilson Creek in Odessa. The Odessa Record gave this report on the front page of that contest in its issue of April 10, 191...
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