This photo from the Texas League Office is of the 1909 Shreveport Pirates, one of the earliest clubs in a town that enjoyed pro baseball for decades.

It’s part of an impressive project underway by retired (sort of, but you can’t tell by the way he produces for his blog!) sportswriter Nico Van Thyn, former boss and still mentor of the Designated Writers co-founders. He was going to turn it into a book, but instead he’s scribing it on his blog, which can be found here: https://nvanthyn.blogspot.com/

The latest post is Chapter 5, which is Shreveport baseball WAY back in the day. You can go back and catch up on the best players to come out of this area, the day The Babe came to town, and bunches more…

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