Pauls Valley Raiders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma indiana it ultimately folded in 1955

it ultimately folded in 1955 due to financial struggles

The 1941 Tobs went 87-30 to win the Coastal Plain League by more than 20 games and were later recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time

a young Cleveland outfield prospect named Roger Maris played for the Kernels

Baseball in Keokuk ran far deeper than the Kernels era: the 1875 Keokuk Westerns were among the founding members of the National Association

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Pauls Valley Raiders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma indiana it ultimately folded in 1955The Pauls Valley Raiders, based in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, joined the Sooner State League in 1948 as an expansion team and played at Wacker Park. In their second season the Raiders captured the 1949 pennant with an 88 52 record and drew 61,085 fans, an average of 873 per game, before falling to the Lawton Giants in the championship finals 4 games to 1. The 1951 club posted a 90 50 record, 40 games above . 500, yet finished fourth in a stacked league