McAlester Rockets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma sooner state league and the image of workers

and the image of workers rolling melons up into boxcars gave the ballclub the name the papers used for it from the start

joined the Sooner State League in 1948 as an expansion team

commissioned in 1941 as one of the largest naval aviation training facilities in the country

with ribbed cuffs and hem to keep the shape intact

yet finished fourth in a stacked league behind Ardmore (99-40)

McAlester Rockets T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma sooner state league and the image of workersThe McAlester Rockets, based in McAlester, Oklahoma, were the most successful franchise in Sooner State League history, winning five league championships in seven seasons as a New York Yankees affiliate, capturing the title in 1947 and then four consecutive years from 1950 through 1953. The Rockets played at Jeff Lee Stadium, drawing between 40,000 and 63,000 fans per season, strong attendance for a Class D market. The franchise's most enduring piece