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The Pawhuska Huskers were a Western Association baseball team based in Pawhuska, Oklahoma United States that played from 1920 to 1921. Over the course of their two-year existence, only one known major league player played for them: Rudy Hulswitt. He also managed them in 1921. [1]

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