Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita badly needed repairs, and the Wichita Wranglers were struggling with low attendance. Bob Rich Jr., who had owned the team for 18 years, knew he had to make a change.
Ray Winder had a plan. After attracting fewer than 68,000 fans during a 77-game home schedule in 1958, the Travelers professional baseball club left Little Rock and moved to Shreveport for the 1959 season. In 1960, Winder formed the Arkansas Travelers Baseball Club Inc. and led a public stock drive to buy the New Orleans Pelicans franchise.
Baseball gloves were as small as oven mitts and Theodore Roosevelt was U.S. president when the Little Rock Travelers posed for photographs now displayed at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock.
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8:17 AM April 18, 2021
Men s shed members gathered at the Grange care home on Saturday to watch the official ribbon-cutting by local MP Duncan Baker.
- Credit: Noah Vickers
A group combatting social isolation among men in a Norfolk town opened its new meeting space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in glorious sunshine.
Members of the North Walsham Men’s Shed gathered on the grounds of the town’s Grange care home on Saturday afternoon.
Men s shed members gathered at the Grange care home on Saturday to watch the official ribbon-cutting by local MP Duncan Baker.
- Credit: Noah Vickers
Men’s sheds are community spaces for men to chat with one another and work on DIY projects.