By Rene TorresSpecial to the AdvanceMany towns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, by the 1920s, provided baseball teams who participated in organized semi-professional leagues. The Brownsville team played on a dusty diamond on the outskirts of town.To the local fans, it was a chicken wire stadium whose playing boundaries were marked off with ropes looped between posts. Fans had a choice. Either sit in the stands and stand along the first and third base lines, or watch from their cars — which they could park side by side along the outfield boundary line. The games were popular and usually ...