Duncan Uttmen T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Color:Navy The franchise had operated the

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

Their unique name comes from a newspaper reporter who wrote in 1895 that when the Longview team went to San Antonio to play the San Antonio Missions the Longview team "ate up" the Missions

then the Uttmen in 1949

the Orphans existed for only a single season before folding

Duncan Uttmen T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Color:Navy 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