Duncan Uttmen Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Batavia Clippers The franchise had operated the

The franchise had operated the previous season as the Victoria Eagles before adopting the Rosebuds name for 1957

Chuck Harmon

which remains headquartered there today

The club entered professional baseball in the Rio Grande Valley League in 1950

Hubbell would go on to a Hall of Fame career with the New York Giants

Duncan Uttmen Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Batavia Clippers The franchise had operated theThe Duncan Uttmen, based in Duncan, Oklahoma, carried one of the strangest names in minor league baseball history, playing in the Class D Sooner State League in 1949 and 1950 under a name taken from the team's own owner, Otto Utt. The franchise began in 1947 as the Duncan Cementers, named for the Halliburton Cementers, the national champion semi pro team backed by the Halliburton company in its founding hometown of Duncan, and Halliburton bought the