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Baseball fans turn out to see stars of yesteryear
More than 50,000 Texans filled two-thirds of the mammoth Cotton Bowl on April 11, 1950 not to watch football but the season opener of Dallas’ minor league baseball team.
Had the so-called “national pastime” suddenly replaced pigskin combat as Dallasites’ favorite athletic contest? No, the new owner of the Dallas Eagles had turned a humdrum occasion into a red-letter day on the local sports
calendar.
Wealthy Dick Burnett made his fortune in the East Texas oil boom during the ...