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Big Plays on the Border

Big Plays on the Border

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 ...

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