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By Kent Brooks As German troops crossed into Austria, a Baca County man set out for San Francisco behind a team of oxen. On Friday, March 11, 1938, two very different stories were unfolding thousands of miles apart. In Europe, Adolf Hitler was preparing to send German troops across the Austrian border, setting in motion…
If you’ve ever dug into the weirder corners of minor league baseball history, you know team nicknames can get pretty wild. But even by Class D standards, east-central Illinois in the early 1900s was playing in a league of its own. For two brief summers, local ballclubs took the field named not after fierce animals…
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