Wichita Falls Spudders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas kinston eagles In the late 1940s and

In the late 1940s and early 1950s

taking their name from the oil boom reshaping the city's economy at the time

They played their home games at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds before folding after the 1923 season

based in Hammond

1948) and captured its only playoff title in 1947

Wichita Falls Spudders Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Texas kinston eagles In the late 1940s andThe Wichita Falls Spudders carried one of the most distinctive names in Texas minor league baseball across nearly four decades. "Spudders" has nothing to do with potatoes: in the oil industry, to "spud" a well means to begin drilling it, and a spudder is the rig used for that initial phase. The franchise entered the Texas League in 1920, won the league championship in 1927, and joined the Big State League as a founding member in 1947. Frank Saucier