* Amarillo Dillas

The Amarillo Dillas were a charter member of the independent Texas-Louisiana League, which was formed in 1994.

The Amarillo Dillas were brought back in 2006 as one of six charter members of the independent United League Baseball ( ULB ).

The new Amarillo Dillas management renovated the entire stadium, including a new field and new seats.

The Amarillo Dillas just missed the playoffs in their first two seasons in the new league.

The Dillas will be replaced by the Amarillo Sox beginning in the 2011 season.

* Amarillo Dillas

Category: Amarillo Dillas players

Jermaine Russell Van Buren ( born July 2, 1980 in Laurel, Mississippi ) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who now plays for Amarillo Dillas, an Independent Professional Baseball club in the United League.

Originally, Kentucky, Tri-Cities and Arkansas were also committed to the new league, but Kentucky folded, and both Tri-Cities and Arkansas followed Green Bay and Amarillo to the Indoor Football League.

Other ATSF depots were in Amarillo, Brownwood, Gainesville, Temple, El Paso, and Clovis, New Mexico.

The Mayfield Brothers of West Texas, including Smokey Mayfield, Thomas Edd Mayfield, and Herbert Mayfield, were among Ford's warmup bands, having played for him in concerts in Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, during the late 1940s.

As the program grew, efforts were made by legislators from rural areas, including State Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo, to expand the farm-to-market road network in the late 1940s.

The Don Harrington Discovery Center | Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument located in Amarillo, Texas holds 4 time capsules in stainless steel that should be opened after a duration of 25, 50, 100, and 1, 000 years after they were locked in 1968.

The home and 30 acres were donated in 2005 by Amarillo businessman Brent Caviness and a partner,

In 1953, the plant began production of bomb components, manufacturing plutonium triggers, or " pits ", which were used at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas to assemble nuclear weapons.

The previous Republican representatives were Robert D. " Bob " Price of Pampa ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Beau Boulter of Amarillo ( 1985 – 1989 ).

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U. S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were ( when originally installed during 1974 ) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line ( most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs ; the tailfin ) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Advertising sales were assigned to William E. Vick of Amarillo, Texas under an exclusive contract.

After the 2010 sesson, the Captains ' current owners were awarded an American Association team to be based in Amarillo to replace a United League Baseball team.

Allied Health Sciences programs also were expanded to Amarillo and the Permian Basin.

While the routes were marked concurrently, the remainder of SH 5 kept its numbering until 1939, when SH 5 was truncated to a route running from Amarillo to near Dalhart.

He made his professional wrestling debut as a referee on June 1974 in the Amarillo territory owned by the Funks.

Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. ( December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012 ), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets.

Before becoming a poker professional Roberts was a rounder and traveled the country looking for games along with other legends such as Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim.

The Amarillo Venom are a professional indoor football team in the Lone Star Football League.

He took a train to Amarillo, Texas and played catcher in the local semi-pro baseball league for the Amarillo team.

In 2010 Studer sold his American Association franchise to a group in Amarillo, Texas as part of a move to bring Class Double-A affiliated baseball to Pensacola.

From 1975 to 1980, he handled baseball play-by-play duties at the double-A level for Alexandria, Louisiana, Amarillo, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee.

In the off-season, he teaches baseball at Amarillo Baseball Academy.

The franchise became the Amarillo Sox for the 2011 season ; the new team, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, began play in 2012.

The club is nicknamed El Submarino Amarillo ( Yellow Submarine ) due to its yellow home kit, and due to being a low-profile team compared to Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Valencia CF, whom they have challenged for trophies over the last decade.

His nickname, " Moon Man ," stemmed from various escapades such as the hijacking of the team bus and the flooding of a minor league ballpark so he could leave Amarillo one day early at the end of the season.

The team plays their home games at Amarillo Civic Center.

Nevertheless, he was promoted as a " former star " of the team when wrestling in a promotion in his hometown of Amarillo, Texas.

* Star Fleet Battles-( Task Force Games, 1978 ) one of the older still actively played and published wargames today ; based on Star Trek, it is arguably the most successful tactical space combat system that does not rely on miniatures ( published by Amarillo Design Bureau ).

The play Texas shown at Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas is loosely based on the history of Henrietta.

Canadian is the site of one of fourteen branches of the Happy State Bank and Trust Company, based in Amarillo.

In the last part of his life, Bean met the legendary land surveyor W. D. Twichell, who platted the majority of Texas counties and based in Amarillo by 1890.

Much of the XIT surveying was done prior to 1900 by W. D. Twichell, then based in Amarillo.

Eventually, the company merged with Southwestern Public Service Co. ( SPS ), based in Amarillo, Texas, to form New Century Energies ( NCE ) in 1995.

Following the song's success, Christie was awarded the freedom of Amarillo, Texas, and made a guest appearance on the Yorkshire based TV soap opera, Emmerdale.

The Venom began play in 2004 as the Amarillo Dusters, a charter member of the Intense Football League, a small indoor football league based in Texas.

In early 2006, Mark wrestled at the Amarillo, TX based indy-wrestling company West Texas Wrestling Legends ran by his brother Chris.

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