One of the Owls' most notable players was Lon Goldstein
The name had a parallel history that ran alongside the white professional franchise
The name is of course a play on the 'Cog' in Nacogdoches
a migratory songbird that descended on Louisiana's rice fields each autumn in enormous flocks
The Ironton Nailers were a minor league baseball team from Ironton
Pauls Valley Raiders T-Shirt (Heavyweight) - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Atlantic City Surf One of the Owls' mostThe Pauls Valley Raiders, based in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, joined the Sooner State League in 1948 as an expansion team and played at Wacker Park. In their second season the Raiders captured the 1949 pennant with an 88 52 record and drew 61,085 fans, an average of 873 per game, before falling to the Lawton Giants in the championship finals 4 games to 1. The 1951 club posted a 90 50 record, 40 games above . 500, yet finished fourth in a stacked league