Chickasha Chiefs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma 15 oz The team played at Bowen

The team played at Bowen Field

that franchise winning championships in 1946 and 1948 before folding after the 1952 season

As a New York Giants affiliate in 1952

So that's the story of one of the most unusal minor league baseball team names of all time

Mathews went on to hit 512 career home runs and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978

Chickasha Chiefs Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma 15 oz The team played at BowenThe Chickasha Chiefs, based in Chickasha, Oklahoma, joined the Sooner State League in 1948 as an expansion team, playing at Borden Park on the east side of town. The Chiefs made the playoffs in four of their five seasons, posting a 78 61 third place finish in 1949 and an 80 59 record in 1950, the same year Borden Park burned and had to be rebuilt for the following season. Chickasha had hosted earlier professional ball as the 1920 1922 Chickasha