Baseball on the Prairie<\/strong> is subtitled, “How Seven Small-Town Teams Shaped Texas League History,” and covers the early days of the league and the people and towns that made this centuries-old institution possible. Teams from Sherman, Denison, Paris, Corsicana, Cleburne, Greenville and Temple are the focus of this detailed history with photographs.
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<\/a>The recently published The Galveston Buccaneers<\/strong> covers Shearn Moody’s purchase of the Buccaneers in 1931, and the development of a languishing squad into a dominating force which won the 1934 Texas League Championship. The book takes a look at the Moody family, a team of talented players, and the island city that rallied around them, and weaves it all into a captivating must-read history for baseball fans all over Texas and beyond. 170 pages with many photographs and illustrations.