Keifer Oklahoma Baseball Players 1910 Real Photo Postcard
In 1910, baseball was rapidly cementing its status as America's national pastime, with local and amateur leagues forming the backbone of the sport's widespread popularity. This postcard captures "Daugherty's Warriors" of the O. & C.C. League, a team from Kiefer, Oklahoma, an oil boom town established just a few years prior. Such community-based teams provided essential entertainment and fostered strong civic pride in burgeoning towns like Kiefer.
These local games were significant social events, often drawing large crowds as depicted, illustrating how deeply baseball was integrated into early 20th-century American life, particularly in smaller, developing communities. The image offers a valuable historical record of leisure, fashion, and organized sport in rural Oklahoma during the Progressive Era, a period when communal activities like attending a baseball game were central to social interaction.
These local games were significant social events, often drawing large crowds as depicted, illustrating how deeply baseball was integrated into early 20th-century American life, particularly in smaller, developing communities. The image offers a valuable historical record of leisure, fashion, and organized sport in rural Oklahoma during the Progressive Era, a period when communal activities like attending a baseball game were central to social interaction.
