Jack Abernathy

owning professional baseball and hockey franchises and promoting tennis and rodeo events

Baptist Hospital was a dream for Oklahoma Baptists for many years before it opened on Easter Sunday in 1959

keep leading and keep getting back up again and again

Mug with Kris Kanaly's mural found in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame

Indians, Cardinals & Rosebuds oklahoma state university Jack AbernathyProfessional baseball in Ardmore segments nicely into two eras. The first covers the time the Territorians of the Texas League arrived through the day when the Western Association Boomers pulled up stakes for Joplin, Missouri. The second is the period 1947 through 1961 when the Indians and Cardinals toiled in the Sooner State League and the 1961 Rosebuds returned from Texas League baseball after a fifty seven year absence. I have structured the