User:Guy F Airey

In 1914 Guy F. Airey graduated valedictorian from McGill Institute in Mobile, Alabama. Working for Gulf Oil, he moved to Wichita Falls where he met Texas League Baseball president, Alvin Gardner. Gardner, hired Airey from Gulf after purchasing the Wichita Falls team. In 1945 as WWII ended, Guy Airey bought a struggling Beaumont Exporters baseball club. The team existed on paper only..it had no players and no equipment. Airey changed all that and selected 18 players to be on his team from a group of 45 sent to him by the New York Yankees. In 1946, the first night game was held in Beaumont Texas. Airey's son, Guy, Jr. served as business manager til his  his father's death in the 1950s. Guy Airey, III,  born in 1952,  was destined to be a great ball player, due to the many hours of practice he received both on and off the field. He played LL, Pony, Colt, and Connie Mack ball before playing at the AA level in Louisiana in 1970 and 71. He holds the record for the most steals in a season (for Pony league, ages 13-14 ) til this day. His family convinced him to entertain another interest during the Vietnam war, so he went and completed Pharmacy School at the University of Texas in 1976. He is a Rho Chi graduate.