July 31, 2012

Baseball became such a popular sport in the United States by the twentieth century that many towns organized their own teams. “Town ball” teams became a popular pastime for the residents of many of Arkansas’s rural towns. A Guion (Izard County) team is shown here in the 1950s.

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