Manuel Castro
.25 linear feet
A2000-065
1890-1945 (unknown)
The King Ranch had an informal association of baseball games as early as 1915. In the 1940s the ranch employees asked the ranch management their permission to start a semi-pro team to compete in the South Texas region. The team took the name of King Ranch Cowboys and played remarkably well, compiling a 91-40-3 record between 1948 - 1961. The team played primarily in South Texas and northern Mexico, against teams from Corpus Christi, Kingsville, and the lower Rio Grande valley. The team built their own ball park on King Ranch land and named it Assault after the 1946 Triple Crown winner raised on King Ranch. In the 1960s the organization began to dissolve as softball leagues were formed in the area. The team played its last game in 1961.
Taken from http://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/roy-bragg/article/King-Ranch-baseball-team-played-ball-in-the-brush-6126387.php#photo-7636023
The collection consists of five booklets used by King Ranch semi-pro baseball players, including the 1968 and 1969 Rule Book; 1968 National Alliance Edition Baseball Casebook and 1975 Baseball Casebook. Also some “National Baseball Congress Official Batting Order” cards.
Arranged in chronological order.
South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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A2000-065 – Gift of Cynthia Castro, niece of Manuel Castro to John E. Conner Museum in November of 1999. Documents transferred to South Texas Archives in 2000.
A2000-065 Processed by student worker at South Texas Archives in 2015, finding aid created by Lori Atkins and EAD finding aid encoded by Matt Tallant in 2016.