Talk:Lamesa, TX

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The West Texas-New Mexico League was a professional baseball league that ran from 1937 through 1955. It started out as a Class D League but was upgraded to Class C in 1946. The Lamesa Lobos team started in 1939 and continued until 1952 briefly changing their name to the Lamesa Dodgers for the 1942 season. The team was inactive from 1943 - 1945 during the peak years of WWII. Dan Pinto was one of the more versatile Lobos playing all infield positions as well as outfield. He was later drafted by the Dodger's organization. The players were not pampered like the professional players of today are. They were housed in a building that they affectionately nicknamed "Skid Row” in Lamesa and traveled the back dusty roads of West Texas and New Mexico in an old Ford Station Wagon. Dan Pinto claimed that the players were treated like kings when on the road in West Texas and New Mexico. "After all, we were the only entertainment in town", he observed.