1951 University of Oklahoma baseball player Bill Harrah stands next to his team photo featured in Wriggley’s Pub in Sun City. It was during this season the team won the school’s first baseball national championship. Mr. Harrah is circled in the team photo, third row from the bottom, third from the left. The letterman jacket and hat are from his student days. (Photo by Kaitlyn Wilkes)
Bill Harrah throws a ball from second base while playing for the University of Oklahoma in 1951. During that time, there were no batting helmets, no batting gloves and wooden bats were used. (Photo courtesy Bill Harrah)
In the summer of 1951, Georgetown resident Bill Harrah headed to Omaha, Nebraska, as a junior second baseman for the University of Oklahoma’s baseball team. Earning an unexpected berth into the College World Series, he and his teammates gathered bats, cleats and catcher’s gear onto the bus and — before Interstate 35 was built — took the more than 13-hour drive from Norman, O...
