School started 3 weeks ago and they called me to substitute all but the first day. We have a terriffic teacher shortage in McClennan County and Waco and that was like an old horse which pulled fire wagon pumpers hearing the fire hall bell go off. Keep telling myself I retired in 1989, but subbing keeps the intellect stimulated. The only thing I remember about the Fort Worth Cats and the Texas League starts with Dixie Stasey I attended high school with. Her brother Bobbie Joe used to pitch for the Roswell team against Fort Worth. & others. he returned to Chalk Mountain to livestock & crop farming and played on Johnsville team in the Bosque Valley League on Sunday afternoons. Teams were from Hico, Iredell, Johnsville, Dublin, White Settlement (Fort Worth) and Grandbury or Tolar. Bob Ford of Johnsville pitched 7 innings no hit , age near 50 against these players who took the game seriously. Walnut Springs had a field and team in connection with theRailroad. Whgen Ben Franklin Wyly came from the Wyly Atlanta, Ga. Wholesale Grocery, Ben F. Jr. had 9 sons and a daughter. The boys formed a baseball team,, with Janice Wyly Slaughter (Roswell) as bat girl. They challenged all comers- college, Railroad, high school, or whoever and beat most of them. Ben Sr. is buried at Comanche and he or his son B.F. (Barefoot) Wyly ran the Galveston Compress with the name Barefoot Wyly readable from ships in the Houston ship channel. The Fort Worth Cats stadium was north of the Trinity River across from the Tarrant County Courthouse. It was flood plain before the levees were built. Across North Main was the original Tripple A or Tripple X Root Beer stand with a water tank size root beer barrell on the top. i don't know all the Texas League teams, but Roswell, Lubbock, Fort Worth, & seems Abilene and possibly Tyler was in it. The stadium was still used in 1950 when I started working at Convair, but not sure when the League disbanded- seems before that. Take care. Charles Wyly On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:21:40 -0600 Sue Skinner <rowdy@yucca.net> writes: >charles a Wyly wrote: .... <snip . ..... > >Bobby Joe had played in the old Texas League for Roswell against the >Fort Worth Cats. > >....<snip> ... > >Dear Charles A. Wyly, > >Would love to hear what you can relate about the old Texas League .. >My >Dad grew up near Morgan Mill. After he married Ottis Blackwell from >Lipan, Hood County, they lived at Tolar and he was a ball player in >the >early 1900's. At least one year Mom ran a boarding house for the team >members. Dad was Irving Mack Patterson. His "Uncle Dave", David >Patterson was an Erath County Commissioner in the early 1900's. >Grandmother, Trecy Louella Hightower Patterson and two sons are buried >at Hightower Cemetery between Morgan Mill and Lipan. There is also a >Patterson Plot there where many of the other Patterson Clan are >buried. > >Many thanks .. I love reading your posts .. even when I don't know the >people! >Sue Patterson Skinner >