Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
City's pro team won it all 80 years ago this summer
Mac Quillin, right, played four seasons with the Pioneers, including the championship year of 1941 when he started at second base and slugged 35 extra-base hits. After baseball, he went to work for the railroad, retiring in 1979. He died in Clovis in 2004 at age 87. Darwin Dobbs, left, pitched almost 600 innings for the Pioneers from 1946 through 1948.
Eighty years ago this week, the United States was still hoping to avoid sending troops into a global war. The anxious nation had turned its eyes to Joe DiMaggio who was halfway through his still-record 56-game hitting streak. And here at home, the Cl...
