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but left us with a great nickname

joined the Sooner State League in 1948 as an expansion team and played at Wacker Park

A young Casey Stengel played for the Grays

where Hall of Famer Billy Williams began his professional career in 1956 at age 18

Chaney and the Alices after the novel's heroine

Marion Oilworkers T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Ohio Size:L but left us with aThe Marion Oilworkers, based in Marion, Ohio, take their name from the oil drilling boom that was active in the region during the early 1900s. The club was a charter member of the Class B Central League, joining seven other founding teams including the Fort Wayne Railroaders and the Wheeling Stogies when play began on April 30, 1903, with home games at Webb Park. Marion had fielded a minor league team once before this, the short lived Glass Blowers,