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Around pro baseball: Remembering Tulsa legend Joe "Speedo" Patterson

12/24/2012 1:02 PM

Popular former Tulsa Oilers outfielder Joe 'Speedo' Patterson died on Nov. 16 in Omaha. He was 76.

Patterson was elected into the Texas League Hall of Fame in June.

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Around pro baseball: Owasso's Hoffman remains with Tigers

12/19/2012 8:01 PM

Former Owasso lefty Matt Hoffman has cleared waivers and the Detroit Tigers assigned him to Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday.

Hoffman was dropped from the major league ... 

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Around pro baseball: Moving day for former Drillers Dickey, Pena

12/17/2012 5:17 PM

Former Tulsa Drillers R.A. Dickey and Carlos Pena are going in opposite directions on baseball's financial scale.

Dickey, the National League's Cy Young Award winner ... 

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Sundberg will be featured speaker at Claremore's Field of Dreams Baseball Dinner

12/14/2012 3:37 PM

Former Texas Rangers catcher Jim Sundberg will be the featured speaker at the eighth annual Claremore Field of Dreams Baseball Banquet on Monday, Jan. 14 at Rogers State’s ... 

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Franklin will be special guest at ORU's Diamond Dinner

12/13/2012 4:46 PM

Former St. Louis Cardinals closer Ryan Franklin is scheduled to be the special guest at the 2013 Oral Roberts University Diamond Dinner.

The dinner is set for Friday, ... 

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Around pro baseball: Missouri Athletic Club honors Holliday; Cards trade Schumaker

12/12/2012 6:09 PM

Stillwater graduate and former Tulsa Drillers outfielder Matt Holliday was honored on Tuesday in St. Louis as the Missouri Athletic Club's Sports Personality of the Year.

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Around pro baseball: Tigers drop Owasso's Hoffman; Big moves for Rangers, Royals

12/10/2012 6:39 PM

Detroit dropped former Owasso lefty Matt Hoffman off its 40-man major league roster on Monday.

Hoffman has been designated for assignment. The Tigers have 10 days ... 

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Around pro baseball: Rangers draft Drillers' Woods; Toronto selects Henryetta's Carroll

12/6/2012 1:55 PM

Tulsa Drillers reliever Coty Woods was selected by the Texas Rangers in the Rule 5 major league draft on Thursday.

Woods was 3-2 with an 0.76 ERA with 16 saves ... 

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Legendary former Tulsa manager elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

12/3/2012 5:44 PM

It was more than 70 years overdue, but former Tulsa Oilers manager James “Deacon” White was finally elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday.

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Tulsa World sports writer Barry Lewis joined the newspaper in September 1993. A University of Tulsa graduate, he covered high school sports for the Tulsa Tribune from 1983 to 1992 and has been in charge of the World's high school coverage since 2004. He remembers well the excitement of attending his first high school football game, Edison at Booker T. Washington, before a capacity crowd at S.E. Williams Stadium in 1973. He also has reported on Tulsa Drillers baseball at both newspapers for almost 20 years.

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