Standing Room Only

ID: 2377 ~ Source: Wright, Mary Ellen Rogers, interviewed by Sean Sutcliffe, April 28, 2014, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
This file appears in: The Waco Pirates

Mary Ellen Wright remembers how well attended the Pirates games were at Katy Park.

This file appears in: The Waco Pirates

By Anabel Burke
Waco and baseball went hand in glove for over five decades. The famous Katy Park (pinned on map below) was home to multiple minor league teams starting in 1899, one of the most famous being the Waco Pirates. The Pirates brought in two championship…