Volume 15 , Issue 19

NW Okie's Corner

This week we take a look back at St. Louis, Missouri, and at least one of the baseball clubs, the St. Louis Browns, that played at Sportsman's Park on the north side of town along Grand Blvd and Dodier street.


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Why? Because in 1907, my grandfather, William "Bill" McGill (fast southpaw pitcher) pitched a season with the St. Louis Browns September, 1907.

Did you know that in 1913, the Republican party was working to unite the progressive party and the republican party to remedy the causes of 1913? Today you wouldn't even see a republican and progressive hanging or talking together, would you? How times do change!

We found another story in the Muskogee Cimeter, out of Muskogee, Indian Territory, concerning the Muskogee Cimeter Gang heading towards St. Louis and Washington D.C. for the inauguration of the President Theodore Roosevelt on March 4, 1905.

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