Baseball fans turn out to see yesterday’s stars
More than 50,000 Texans filled two-thirds of the mammoth Cotton Bowl on Apr. 11, 1950 not to watch football but the season opener of Dallas’ minor league baseball team.
More than 50,000 Texans filled two-thirds of the mammoth Cotton Bowl on Apr. 11, 1950 not to watch football but the season opener of Dallas’ minor league baseball team.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on April 2 announced state sales tax revenue totaled $2.69 billion in March, 2.9% more than the amount reported in March 2019.
How does a nation deal with racial problems? The United States tried a bold new approach in 1866 when the government formed the 9th Cavalry of black men. Known as Buffalo Soldiers, as named by the Indians “because, like the buffalo, they were wooly.” Their story is a masterfully told story, “Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898,” researched and written by Charles L. Kenner and published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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