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Minor league baseball team
Borger Gassers Previous classes
Class C league
Class D league
League
West Texas–New Mexico League League titles 1940 Borger 4 games, Lubbock 3 Previous names
Borger Gassers Previous parks
Huber Ball Park
The Borger Gassers were a minor league baseball team that operated in the
West Texas–New Mexico League 1937 through 1954 with a break from 1943 to 1945 due to World War II. Borger Gassers disbanded on July 16, 1954.
Players
Pitchers
William Hair, 1947
Robert Garrett, 1953
Eddie Carnett , 1948–1952, 1948; batted .409 with 33 home runs and 161 RBIs; other years he batted over .300; from the mound 13-6 in 1950 and 10-6 in 1952
Howard Parks, 1939
Robert Fulton Crues (
Bob Crues ), 1940
Claude Gerald "Lefty" Blair (dates unknown)
Infielders
Verdun Gilchrist, 1946-1950; shortstop, second baseman[
citation needed ]
Littleton Pierson Henry (Ish), 1946, catcher
Tommy Fox, 1946-1954; 3rd base; hit 4 home runs off of Bobby Lane, one of which went into the Huber swimming pool
Luis Sanchez, 1951, shortstop
Outfielders
Gordon Nell , .389-40-175 season in 1940; led the league in home runs and drove in over 160 runs five times
Unknown position
Jim Cain
Pat Lorenzo
Leon Cato
Frank Warren
Stewart Williams
Udell Moore
William Scopetone
Joseph Kilkuskie
Owners
Abe Latman
Dr. Melvin C Kimball
Managers
F.K. Withers, 1939
Pete Susko / Gordon Neil, 1940
Gordon Nell, 1941
Hugh Willingham, 1942
Ted Clawitter, 1946
Gordon Nell / Stu Williams, 1947
Eddie Carnett , 1948
Eddie Carnett / Kenneth Sears, 1949
Mickey Burnett, 1950
Eddie Carnett /Lloyd Brown, 1951
Lloyd Brown, 1952
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Lloyd Brown / Herschel Martin, 1953
Herschel Martin / Tommy Warren, 1954
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