Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring, 1991 Page: 23
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In 1931 Dallasfinished 83-77,fourth place in the Texas League. One can only imagine
what promotional idea was in place for the team picture to be taken in a barn. Hap
Morse (lower right) was manager and a longtime great minor league player.Dallas baseball fans enjoyed the game in casual
surroundings during the 1890s.
... the Hams, Giants, Submarines, Steers, Rebels, or Eagles -
Dallas nicknames all - either finished the regular season
atop the standings or won the post-season playoffs.From 1888 through 1958, Dallas fielded
Texas League teams, with the exception of eight
seasons when the league itself could not muster
(three were war years, 1943-45). Fifteen times
during that span the Hams, Giants, Submarines,
Steers, Rebels, or Eagles - Dallas nicknames all -
either finished the regular season atop the standings
or won the post-season playoffs. From the outset,
Dallas's most heated rivalry came from 30 miles to
the west.
The 1926 Dallas Steers stopped a sixseason
run of pennants by the Fort Worth Panthers,
a franchise which would finish with the league's
best record or win the playoffs nineteen times. Led
on offense by Hack Miller's league-leading 30 homeruns and 118 runs batted in, and by pitchers Dick
Schaumann (17 - 5) and Slim Love (league leading
216 strikeouts), the Steers fashioned an 89 - 66
record. They were managed by pitcher/manager
Snipe Conley (a spitballer, winner of 27 games in
1917 and 148 in his career with Dallas), one of the
most popular Steers to put on a Dallas uniform. The
Steers set a single-season franchise attendance
record of 286,806, a mark which would stand for
20 years.
George and Julius Schepps purchased the
Steers in 1922, with George buying controlling
interest in 1938. Schepps (still going strong today at
age 92) was a colorful owner who would stop at
nothing to increase revenue. In 1946, for instance,
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Dallas County Heritage Society. Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring, 1991, periodical, 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35118/m1/25/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Historical Society.