Transcript of Oral History Interview with Exxon Oilers Baseball Players, July 18, 1975 Page: 1 of 27

                                
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.