Volume 8 Article 12 Issue 4 Summer 7-15-1989 Mike Moore: Eakly's Mr. Baseball Mona Jean Suter Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview Recommended Citation Suter, Mona Jean (1989) "Mike Moore: Eakly's Mr. Baseball," Westview: Vol. 8 : Iss. 4 , Article 12. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol8/iss4/12 This Nonfiction is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westview by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PEOPLE Mr. and Mrs. Mike Moore and daughters. Photograph courtesy of the Moore family. MIKE MOORE: EAKLY’S MR. BASEBALL -----By Mona Jean Suter Oakland A who remembers Eakly Eakly, America, population ap proximately 500, a farming com from a small town could not become ember having to change catchers. munity in Caddo County, Oklahoma, a big-league pitcher. Mike Moore Mike’s first catchers on the Pee Wee boasts of its cotton, its peanuts, and proved them wrong. team were John Buie and Yancy its athletes, in particular its athlete Moore, who grew up on an eighty- Snow. Snow, who still lives and Mike Moore. Around Eakly, 29- acre peanut and cotton farm, actually works in the Eakly area, remembers year-old Michael Wayne Moore, began his trek to stardom as an well how good a cold pop felt after thoughtof as Mr. Baseball, recently eight-year-old Eakly Pee Wee pitch the game, not just to this throat but signed a three-year-no-trade contract er.