Pitcher Steve Ridzik made his professional debut with Reidsville before going on to a twelve-season major league career with the Phillies
" likely referenced the local shoemaking trade or working-class roots of the community
a Chickasaw leader for whom the city was named
The team would be renamed as the Paris Parisians for the 1923 season
when Grover "Deacon" Jones hit
Marion Oilworkers Crewneck Sweatshirt - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Ohio Size:XL Pitcher Steve Ridzik made hisThe Marion Oilworkers, based in Marion, Ohio, take their name from the oil drilling boom that was active in the region during the early 1900s. The club was a charter member of the Class B Central League, joining seven other founding teams including the Fort Wayne Railroaders and the Wheeling Stogies when play began on April 30, 1903, with home games at Webb Park. Marion had fielded a minor league team once before this, the short lived Glass Blowers,