Ada Herefords T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma hannibal mules 51 home runs

51 home runs

losing to Dyersburg in four games

before a major league career that included 224 wins

were one of eight founding franchises of the Big State League in 1947

but the team overall was quite good most years and sent many players on to the majors

Ada Herefords T-Shirt (Premium Lightweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma hannibal mules 51 home runsThe Ada Herefords, based in Ada, Oklahoma, were charter members of the Class D Sooner State League when the circuit launched in 1947, playing at the aptly named Hereford Park as an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns. The Hereford is a breed of cattle native to England and widely raised across Oklahoma's ranches, recognizable for its reddish brown body and distinctive cream colored face, the breed that gave the team its name and the ballpark its own.