Run, Unidentified Buff Player, Run!
In the spring of 1951, the Houston Buffs trained in Panama, playing several games against the Albrook U.S. Air Force Base Flyers. Here we see a now unidentified member of the 1951 Buffs legging out a ground ball in a game in which the Flyers wore their cool short pants leg uniforms. It looks too much like Larry Miggins to not be him, but for one thing: Larry says he wasn’t assigned to the Buffs in 1951 until after spring training and that delay by the Cardinals caused him to miss the trip to Panama. By the way, the Flyers also had a conventional baseball outfit they wore, but living near the Equator made the brief version popular.
The Buffs wore shorts for less than a month, late in the previous bad season of 1950, but their motives were driven as much by President Allen Russell’s desire to pump the gate with the female fans as it was for player comfort.
Short pants didn’t work in Houston. Nothing can compensate for losing baseball in the long run.
Speaking of heat, we are supposed to get triple digit temps here in Houston by the end of the week. Have fun staying cool, everybody. Whatever it takes to get you there is now in play as the challenge of the day.
The Pecan Park Eagle 
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