... This is TBHOF Board President Bill McCurdy getting ready to leave home for a Houston Buffs game in 1950. Wearing his homemade Buffs uniform, he was the envy of all other Knothole Gang members at Buff Stadium on that long ago game day. Be clear, outsiders and all others who think of Houston and Texas only in terms of football, baseball was our game in these parts long before football came along. Baseball was our sandlot game. Football was something we played to kill the time until it was baseball season again. Basketball was unheard of. There were no baskets in city parks – and no one I knew ever got a basketball for Christmas. – There would’ve been no point to such a gift. - As kids in post WWII Houston, baseball was the game we pursued on our own. You couldn’t go three blocks in the east end of Houston without getting into a new ballgame during the summer. - Many of us lived at Buff Stadium as members of the Knothole Gang. Our heroes were minor league players for the Houston Buffs. Buff players Solly Hemus, Jerry Witte, Larry Miggins, and Frank Mancuso were major heroes to the kids of mid-20th century Houston - and none of them ever let us down.