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Baytown Historical Tape, made July 18, 1975 Betsy Webberv Baytown Sun reporters is interviewer. In the early days of Exxon's Refinery in Baytown, recreational opportunities for employes in the new town and new refinery were limited. Sports provided recreation for both Participants and spectators and a baseball team was organized early in refinery history. It be- came increasingly important to the town between the years 1920 and 1954. The refinery was not Exxon then but Humble and the team was the Humble oilers. As many as 3,500 spectators lined the playing field in the hey day of the Baytown Oilers as the team became known widely for their fine ball playing, Four former Oilers are here to tell us about baseball in Baytown and the Exxon refinery. Longtime Baytonian J. W. (Jimmy) Carcoll was on the original team organized in 1920. He played only three Years until, he says, profession l and semi-pros started coming in. Jinmyi we need to eet a little background on you. Where were you born? south of CARROLL: I was born about 20 miles from Houston on the Almeda
Roads one mile off the Almeda Road snx*kw in the Brazos bottoms.
Interview with J. W. Carroll, B. B. Williams, Melvin Barry, and Bob Kalbitz, all members of the Exxon Oilers baseball team from Baytown, Texas. After a short introduction by Webber, these men all answer questions and describe their experiences before they arrived in Baytown and during their playing days for the Oilers.
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Webber, Betsy; Carroll, J. W.; Williams, B. B.; Barry, Melvin & Kalbitz, Bob.Transcript of Oral History Interview with Exxon Oilers Baseball Players, July 18, 1975,
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July 18, 1975;
Baytown, TX.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth844977/m1/1/:
accessed April 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Lee College.