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Pictured are nine members of the baseball team
known as "The Cockleburr Nine,"
which played in Pawnee and Payne counties.
Seated left to right:
Howard Frick, Second Base; Cleo Coke, Third Base; Art Goings, Manager; Raymond Goings,
Shortstop; Elvin Frick; Catcher.
Standing left to right:
Arley Coke, Pitcher; Pug Coonrood, First Base; Claude "Slim" Cody, Pitcher and
Centerfield;
Norman Goings, Rightfield; Ernest Frick, Centerfield.
Other members of the team not pictured:
Dale Boblit, Shortstop and Catcher; Byron Sierer, First Base; Bonus Keeton, Third Base;
Code Keeton, Outfield.
The team was started about 1931 or 1932. Their first diamond was on the Goings' place, located northeast of Yale.
Playing schedule was "every Sunday if it wasn't raining." Some opposing teams included those from Blackburn, Jennings, Skedee, and Hallett.
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