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BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Related Links</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Great reference sites on the KOM League*</div> <div> <U>http://www.bertconvy.net/bertbaseball.html</U></div> <bR> <div> <U>http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/February/14-1038-sports012.txt</U></div> <bR> <div> http://www.examiner-enterprise.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/February/11-967-sports018.txt</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/komlr/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/komlr/"><U>http://www.geocities.com/komlr/</U></A>  --The first KOM League Website</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/jhall03/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/jhall03/"><U>http://www.geocities.com/jhall03/</U></A> --The second KOM League Website</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.theswearingens.com/mick/jhall.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.theswearingens.com/mick/jhall"><U>http://www.theswearingens.com/mick/jhall.htm</U></A> --A Mantle related site with KOM League material</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://rturner229.tripod.com/turnerreport/id7.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://rturner229.tripod.com/turnerrepor"><U>http://rturner229.tripod.com/turnerreport/id7.html</U></A> --A news site that references the KOM League from time to time.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.powersmuseum.com/about/location.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.powersmuseum.com/about/locati"><U>http://www.powersmuseum.com/about/location.html</U></A>--Site that carries some KOM League and Arkansas-Missouri League photos of old Carthage teams.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.missouri.edu/~komurp/hall.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.missouri.edu/~komurp/hall.htm"><U>http://www.missouri.edu/~komurp/hall.html</U></A>--A University of Missouri site that carries both audio and video clips of the KOM League.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.carthagenow.com/cvbnews.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.carthagenow.com/cvbnews.html"><U>http://www.carthagenow.com/cvbnews.html</U></A>--Carthage news on KOM League activities.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/meadorman/sports.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages"><U>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/meadorman/sports.htm</U></A>--Bartlesville, OK coverage of KOM League and baseball in Bartlesville.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/061701/new_packard.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/06170"><U>http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/061701/new_packard.shtml</U></A>--Story written by the son of KOM League great, Loren Packard.  Packard was KOM League batting champ in 1947. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.morningsun.net/stories/053101/spo_0531010049.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.morningsun.net/stories/053101"><U>http://www.morningsun.net/stories/053101/spo_0531010049.shtml</U></A>--Pittsburg, Kansas article relating to the KOM League.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.joplinglobe.com/1998/jun98/jun20/062098s3.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.joplinglobe.com/1998/jun98/ju"><U>http://www.joplinglobe.com/1998/jun98/jun20/062098s3.html</U></A>-A look at the 1998 KOM League reunion by the Joplin Globe</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/stewart.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/stewart.h"><U>http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/stewart.htm</U></A>--An exceptional web page on Don Stewart of the 1951-52 Ponca City Dodgers.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/z/zimmer-01zim.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/z/zim"><U>http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/z/zimmer-01zim.html</U></A>--This page, if read far enough, will give the story on how Hal Zimmer wound up playing for the 1951 Ponca City Dodger. This is from the book "Zim." Zim is about Don Zimmer, coach of the Yankees and a Major Leaguer in some capacity for over 50 years.  Hal and Don were brothers.</div> <bR> <div> *If a reader finds a site that references the KOM League, send it along and it will be added to this list.</div> <bR> <div> Note:  Some sites are here today and gone tomorrow.  Thus, if you attempt to pull one up just know that I found it "today" and "tomorrow" is when you looked for it and it might be gone.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Photo at left: </b> That is the editor in 1951 when he masqueraded as the batboy for the 1951 Carthage Cubs.  Anything found in the KOM League publications are the memories that "kid" retained over the years.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>