Shawnee Hawks Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Holiday Picks Newspaper records show they planned

Newspaper records show they planned to return for 1924

The league was a semi-pro league and played about 15 games each summer as a short season

the highest batting average in all of minor league baseball that year

but the 1950 season collapsed and the franchise moved mid-season to Shawnee

one of several non-Illinois/Indiana/Iowa clubs that joined the Three-I as the league's founding-era franchises contracted

Shawnee Hawks Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Oklahoma Holiday Picks Newspaper records show they plannedThe Shawnee Hawks, based in Shawnee, Oklahoma, were the continuation of the franchise that began in Duncan as the Cementers in 1947, then the Uttmen in 1949, before financial trouble forced a mid season relocation to Shawnee on August 18, 1950. Under the Hawks name the franchise steadied into one of the more consistent clubs in the league's second half, posting a 96 44 record in 1951 and winning the first half pennant. The team became a Brooklyn