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The Oak Mountain Stealers was a USSSA baseball team that represented Oak Mountain. They practiced at a field in Indian Springs. They lasted for three seasons in the USSSA and played tournaments in other leagues, too.

Creation
The Stealers were formed in the fall of 2007. They used the players off the 2007 Oak Mountain All-Star team. Chris Mullinax wanted to play baseball throughout the fall but not at the park. This compelled him to call other coaches and formed the Oak Mountain Stealers. The team was created to test out Dizzy Dean baseball and help OMYB transfer in to Dizzy Dean and out of Metro. They then Moved into USSSA and stayed.

2007
Team had rolled on to a 5–9 record in the 2007 season. The team had a blue and red theme for that year, the only time they went with that look. In this season they were an average team in the series, going 5–4 in in-class play. The purpose of this season was to help prepare the team to play in the Dizzy Dean next season.

2007 Season
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Spring 2008
This season saw the Stealers go to the Dizzy Dean tournaments and two USSSA tournaments. They would go 2-4-0 in USSSA play. They would then play for the Dizzy Dean World Series. First they would have to play in the Gardendale Regionals and would go 0–2–0. The lost both games by 11 runs, but would still qualify for the Alabama State Tournament. In this tournament they qualified to go to the Dizzy Dean World Series after getting elemenated in the second round. The team suffered an injury when Maddux Mullinax suffered a broken arm in a go-kart wreck. The Stealers then would then be elemenated in the quarter finals of the losers bracket. {|boarder='0' width"70%"
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Fall of 2008
The Stealers would go 3-7-0 in the fall. The team would continue in USSSA play and go 2-4-0 in class play. The team would undergo lots of changes at this time. The team would beat an AAA opponent this year, the first time in team history. With signs of improvement, the team would go to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and play in a tournament there. In this tournament the team would play in the New Years Classic at the park. The team then would loose Wesley Hardin and Blakley Burrow to Lions Baseball and Bentley Bowers quit the team.