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The Pampa Oilers were a West Texas–New Mexico League (1940–1942, 1946–1955) and Southwestern League (1956–1957) minor league baseball team based in Pampa, Texas, USA. They were affiliated with the Oklahoma City Indians in 1953 and 1954.

The West Texas–New Mexico League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1937 through 1955. The league was not active in 1943–1945 because of World War II. The league started as "Class D", switched to "Class C" in 1946 and then to "Class B" in 1955.

The Southwestern League was the name of four former minor league baseball leagues that operated in the Southwestern United States. The second league, also known as the Oklahoma State League, was in operation for the 1904 season. The third league operated from 1921 to 1926. The fourth league, formerly the Longhorn League, operated from 1956 to 1957 before changing its name to the Sophomore League.

Pampa, Texas City in Texas, United States

Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,994 as of the 2010 census. Pampa is the county seat of Gray County and is the principal city of the Pampa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes both Gray and Roberts counties.

They won league championships in 1946, 1954 and 1955, under managers Grover Seitz, Hersh Martin and Seitz, respectively.

Grover Pinckney Seitz was a Minor League Baseball player well known for his long and storied tenure.

Notable players and managers include Sammy Hale, George Milstead, Warren Hacker, John Bottarini, Luis Suarez, Ted Pawelek, Tommy Thompson Lou Johnson, and Deck Woldt.

Sammy Hale American baseball player

Samuel Douglas Hale was an American baseball player and manager. He played professional baseball from 1917 to 1941, including 10 year in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Detroit Tigers (1920–1921), Philadelphia Athletics (1923–1929), and St. Louis Browns (1930). Hale compiled a lifetime batting average of .302 and was a member of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics team that won the 1929 World Series. He also served as a player-manager in the West Texas–New Mexico League with the Midland Cowboys (1939–1940), Pampa Oilers (1941), and Wichita Falls Spudders (1941).

George Earl Milstead was a professional baseball pitcher. A left-hander, he played three seasons in Major League Baseball from 1924 to 1926 with the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

Warren Hacker American baseball player

Warren Louis Hacker was an American professional baseball player, a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1948–56), Cincinnati Redlegs (1957), Philadelphia Phillies (1957–58) and Chicago White Sox (1961). He was also the uncle of former Major League shortstop Rich Hacker.

They were the only minor league team to ever come out of Pampa. [1]

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