Volume 15 , Issue 25

NW Okie's Corner

We have been on the road for the last few days since Thursday of last week. One of the Texas towns we went through on our journey to Houston was Fredericksburg. Unique little town with some great German food.

As I said above, we headed out early Thursday morning, across New Mexico to El Paso and caught I10 towards Houston to catch up with an old friend / neighbor of ours from the 1970's to 1980. Had a great visit and met our oldest son from Tyler, Texas down there, also.

On our way back north we made a side trip to San Antonio and up towards Austin and Ft. Worth/Dallas. I will try to bring some of the moisture up to northwest Oklahoma. I hear the temperatures have risen to 104 to 105 in Alva, Oklahoma today. Whew! That's too hot for this Colorado NW Okie! The humidity in Houston and San Antonio had me sweating and looking for cool places to cool down.

We had a great evening on the Riverwalk, staying at the Omni LaMansion Del Rio, with a river view. After San Antonio we made our way to Austin to do some research at the history center, concerning my grandpa's 1906 baseball days with the Austin Senators. Found a great photo of Grandpa and his team mates, and ordered a 8x10 inch print.

Tonight we are in Ft. Worth, Texas, planning to get a digital photo of the JFK sculpture downtown Ft. Worth at the General Worth Square. The reason is because my friend's (in Houston) father, Lawrence Ludtke, was the sculptor. That was his last commissioned piece. Ludtke died a few years ago.

Check out this week's newsletter for some information we have found on our grandpa McGill's professional baseball legacy in Austin, Texas with the Austin Senators. We will have more information about the Austin Senators and grandpa in later issues. Thanks for letting us get this newsletter out a day late.

You can check out our Grandpa's Baseball Legacy. We also found the following Baseball Reference.com site concerning some statistics for Bill McGill, our Grandpa. William Jacob McGill (Parson), bats: right; throws: right; height:6' 2"; weight: 185lb. Bill was born June 29, 1880, in Galva, Kansas; Died August 7, 1959, in Alva Oklahoma (age 79). He went to school at Friends University, in Wichita, Kansas.

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