May 28, 2010

Hazel Walker from Oak Hill (Little River County) and her Arkansas Travelers basketball team pose with their touring station wagon in 1949. In their best season, Walker’s Travelers won 201 games and lost only nineteen, playing only men’s teams. In sixteen seasons, the team averaged 220 games, three times what the NBA scheduled at the time.

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