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in the 1930s, the

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in the 1940s and the

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in the 1950s. Their home fields included High School Park, Recreation Park, and Sportsman Park. The writer Shelby Foote followed the Bucks as a youth, and recalls this in interviews in

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Baseball teams established in 1922 Baseball teams disestablished in 1955 1922 establishments in Mississippi 1955 disestablishments in Mississippi Defunct minor league baseball teams * Defunct baseball teams in Mississippi Detroit Tigers minor league affiliates Defunct Cotton States League teams {{Mississippi-baseball-team-stub