Red Dirt Baseball: The First Decades tells the story of those leagues and scores of the ball clubs from Altus to Vinita along with hundreds of photos of towns

From the press conference that lunched the season to the Fiesta Bowl win

the lessons learned

their stories are played out on a national stage

Beaux Arts Ball Oklahoma Red Dirt Baseball: The FirstThe Beaux Arts Society was born from the need to sustain the Oklahoma Art Center, known today as the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Although prominent families and art enthusiasts made possible the purchase of art and provided funds to attract traveling artists, there was no means to maintain the facility itself. That all changed in 1945 when Eleanor Kirkpatrick suggested an annual costume ball to raise much needed funds and create broad publicity for