The Pampa Oilers were a West Texas–New Mexico League (1940–1942, 1946–1955) and Southwestern League (1956–1957) minor league baseball team based in Pampa, Texas, USA. They were affiliated with the Oklahoma City Indians in 1953 and 1954.
They won league championships in 1946, 1954 and 1955, under managers Grover Seitz, Hersh Martin and Seitz, respectively.
Notable players and managers include Sammy Hale, George Milstead, Warren Hacker, John Bottarini, Luis Suarez, Ted Pawelek, Tommy Thompson Lou Johnson, and Deck Woldt.
They were the only minor league team to ever come out of Pampa.[1]
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from 1939 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1956, skippering the Pampa Plainsmen (1939), PampaOilers (1940, 1946–1951, 1955–1956) and Clovis Pioneers (1941–1942...
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minor leagues for the Key West Conchs in 1952, the PampaOilers in 1953, and split time with Pampa and the Artesia NuMexers in 1954. He died in Tampa...
playing days in the West Texas–New Mexico League. He played for the PampaOilers in 1946, hitting .339 with 26 home runs, 41 doubles and a .603 slugging...
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