The Paris Indians were a minor league baseball team based in

Paris, Texas Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020. History Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River Co ...

that played in the

Big State League The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B level circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. The Corpus Christi Clippers (1955-1956), Texark ...

from 1952 to 1953. The club was managed by

Red Davis John Humphrey "Red" Davis (July 15, 1915 – April 26, 2002) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball and a longtime manager in the minor leagues. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Davis threw and batted right-handed, stood 5'11" ...

and featured major leaguers

Vicente Amor Vicente Amor Álvarez (born August 8, 1932) is a Cuban former professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball (1955 for the Chicago Cubs and 1957 for the Cincinnati Redlegs). Born in ...

, Alex Carrasquel, Davis,

Buck Frierson Robert Lawrence "Buck" Frierson (July 29, 1917 – June 26, 1996) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. He is most famous for his minor league performance in 1947, when he hit 58 home runs with 197 runs batted in. ...

Jim Kirby James B. Kirby (September 28, 1884 – June 9, 1971) was an American inventor and self-taught electrical engineer who focused his career on "eliminating the drudgery of housework". He is known mostly for inventing the Kirby vacuum cleaner a ...

in 1952 and

Red Barrett Charles Henry "Red" Barrett (February 14, 1915 – July 28, 1990) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played 11 total career seasons in the National League. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves and St. Louis Cardinals. He pitche ...

Clarence Beers Clarence Scott Beers (December 9, 1918 – December 6, 2002) was an American professional baseball pitcher whose 13-season career included a single game played in the major leagues in as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. Born in El Dorado, K ...

, Carrasquel, Davis, Frierson and Carlos Paula in 1953.Baseball Reference roster pages]

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