* Amarillo Dillas

The Amarillo Dillas were a professional baseball team based in Amarillo, Texas, in the United States.

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

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.

* 1961: Amarillo Globe-Times, " for exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and brought about the election of a reform slate.

" The sudden revival of " Amarillo " summoned Christie back to the UK for an unexpected return to fame.

Gordon in turn hires a bodyguard ( Terry Crews ) to protect himself, and Joe, expecting Tony to tail him, leaves a set of bogus clues that lead him to Miami, Florida ; Bangor, Maine ; and then Amarillo, Texas ; where he's shot in the back as he attempts to get on the grounds of the wrong ranch to try to serve the papers.

On September 6, 2011, Pavone was ordered back to his diocese by his bishop, Patrick Zurek of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas.

* Teel Bivins ( 1947 – 2009 ), a former U. S. Ambassador to Sweden and a former member of the Texas State Senate from Amarillo, Texas, died at the age of sixty-one of progressive supranuclear palsy, first diagnosed in 2006, while he was in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Cellular One of Amarillo Purchased April 2006

To coincide with the 2006 World Cup, a new version of " Amarillo " was released on the novelty single "( Is This The Way To ) The World Cup?

In April 2006 at local Amarillo indy-wrestling promotion West Texas Wrestling Legends, Jay's nephew " Radical " Ricky Romero III and Mike DiBiase teamed up as " Team 3G " ( Team Third Generation Wrestlers ) and went on to become the first-ever WTWL Jay Youngblood Memorial Tag Team Cup Tournament winners at " The Legacy of Legends " show.

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

Amarillo Sky earned a 2006 ACM nomination for song of the year and video of the year.

* 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 ).

Oklahoma City is one of the few markets located east of Amarillo, north of Dallas and west of Chicago to have affiliates of two or more of the major Spanish-language broadcast networks: KTUZ 30 ( Telemundo ), Woodward-based KUOK 35 ( Univision, its translators KUOK-CD 36 and KUOK-LP 48 serve the immediate Oklahoma City area ) and KOHC-CD 45 ( Azteca America ).

Due to the small amount of territory covered by I-40, only one Texas welcome center is located along this stretch of road, in Amarillo at the exit for Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, serving both sides of the interstate.

It is believed that he was headed for the Amarillo, Texas area, but he camped one night at Wolf Hollow Creek in Indian Territory and remained there until his death a few years later.

In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.

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

The area is also served by one BNSF line bypassing downtown from Ft. Worth to Amarillo.

In 2005, Parkinson returned the compliment by appearing alongside other UK celebrities such as Ronnie Corbett, Jim Bowen, Geoffrey Hayes and Shakin ' Stevens on Kay's video with Tony Christie for their number one single, "( Is This the Way to ) Amarillo ".

The planned scenario was that Sedaka was to begin performing " Amarillo ", and after one verse, the audience was to be surprised by the appearance of Christie for an eventual duet.

" Is This the Way to Amarillo " sold over one million copies by September 1972, and was awarded a gold disc.

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.

It was at the top of the charts for one week, only to be knocked off the top spot by the unofficial Comic Relief single " Is This the Way to Amarillo ", by Tony Christie and ( mimed by ) Peter Kay.