Add to ORKGOne hundred years ago, baseball fans in Arkadelphia were gearing up for a real treat: A front-page headline in the Southern Standard newspaper of January 4, 1917, proclaimed, Kansas City Blues to Arrive March 12. It is a little known fact today that Clark County served as a spring training site for the team. A documentary produced in 2015 ( The First Boys of Spring produced by Larry Foley of the University of Arkansas and narrated by Billy Bob Thornton) portrays Hot Springs as a popular place for baseball spring training, but Arkadelphia holds a place in the annals of the sport as well
Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, I...
The inaugural year for baseball played among formally organized base ball clubs (BBC) in Kansas and ...
An official promotional brochure with text and images, and an introduction from Governor Charles H. ...
Baseball is among the nation\u27s most popular sports, and Arkadelphia\u27s history of the sport goe...
Perhaps a little known facet of Clark County history is its connection to Negro League baseball in t...
At this time of year, excitement abounds at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs as thoroughbred horses race ...
On Saturday, May 25, 1918, a major first occurred in Clark County--- it was the first time an airp...
The Clark County Historical Association has just released the 2016 edition of the Clark County Histo...
For decades now, small-town newspapers have traditionally served as sources of news for Arkansas cit...
The spread of baseball during the mid-nineteenth century is sometimes associated with soldiers and f...
One hundred years ago, the automobile was becoming increasingly popular. As of 1903, some 50 Arkansa...
McKenzie Combes, “The People’s Game: Uncovering Diversity in Baseball, Pottawatomie County and Humbo...
At this time of year, many people begin to plant vegetable gardens and hope for a successful growing...
The Kansas City Monarchs, a black baseball team founded by J.L. Wilkinson in 1920, is one of the sto...
The Dallas County Museum in Fordyce and Turtlehull Publishing have recently made available a new boo...
Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, I...
The inaugural year for baseball played among formally organized base ball clubs (BBC) in Kansas and ...
An official promotional brochure with text and images, and an introduction from Governor Charles H. ...
Baseball is among the nation\u27s most popular sports, and Arkadelphia\u27s history of the sport goe...
Perhaps a little known facet of Clark County history is its connection to Negro League baseball in t...
At this time of year, excitement abounds at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs as thoroughbred horses race ...
On Saturday, May 25, 1918, a major first occurred in Clark County--- it was the first time an airp...
The Clark County Historical Association has just released the 2016 edition of the Clark County Histo...
For decades now, small-town newspapers have traditionally served as sources of news for Arkansas cit...
The spread of baseball during the mid-nineteenth century is sometimes associated with soldiers and f...
One hundred years ago, the automobile was becoming increasingly popular. As of 1903, some 50 Arkansa...
McKenzie Combes, “The People’s Game: Uncovering Diversity in Baseball, Pottawatomie County and Humbo...
At this time of year, many people begin to plant vegetable gardens and hope for a successful growing...
The Kansas City Monarchs, a black baseball team founded by J.L. Wilkinson in 1920, is one of the sto...
The Dallas County Museum in Fordyce and Turtlehull Publishing have recently made available a new boo...
Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, I...
The inaugural year for baseball played among formally organized base ball clubs (BBC) in Kansas and ...
An official promotional brochure with text and images, and an introduction from Governor Charles H. ...