Borger Gassers

The Borger Gassers were a minor league baseball team that operated in the West Texas–New Mexico League between 1939 and 1954 with a break from 1943 to 1945 due to World War II. The Borger Gassers disbanded on July 16, 1954.

• (P) Howard Parks - 1939
• (C) Floyd Franklin Smith - 1939
• (P) Robert Fulton "Bob" Crues - 1940
• (C) Littleton Pierson Henry (Ish) - 1946
• (P) William Hair, 1947
• (P) Eddie Carnett, 1948–1952, 1948; batted .409 with 33 home runs and 161 RBIs; other years he batted over .300; from the mound 13-6 in 1950 and 10-6 in 1952
• (P) Robert Garrett, 1953
• (P) Claude Gerald "Lefty" Blair (dates unknown)

• Verdun Gilchrist, 1946-1950; shortstop, second baseman
• Tommy Fox, 1946-1954; 3rd base; hit 4 home runs off of Bobby Lane, one of which went into the Huber swimming pool
• Luis Sanchez, 1951, shortstop

• Gordon Nell, .389-40-175 season in 1940; led the league in home runs and drove in over 160 runs five times

• Jim Cain
• Pat Lorenzo
• Leon Cato
• Frank Warren
• Stewart Williams
• Udell Moore
• William Scopetone
• Joseph Kilkuskie

• Abe Latman
• Dr. Melvin C Kimball

• F.K. Withers, 1939
• Pete Susko / Gordon Neil, 1940
• Gordon Nell, 1941
• Hugh Willingham, 1942
• Ted Clawitter, 1946
• Gordon Nell / Stu Williams, 1947
• Eddie Carnett, 1948
• Eddie Carnett / Kenneth Sears, 1949
• Mickey Burnett, 1950
• Eddie Carnett /Lloyd Brown, 1951
• Lloyd Brown, 1952 ^[1]
• Lloyd Brown / Herschel Martin, 1953
• Herschel Martin / Tommy Warren, 1954

• Gary Bedingfield's Baseball in Wartime!
• Society for American Baseball Research publications: Minor League Baseball Stars, Volume I (1978) and Volume II (1985).
• http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-west-texas-new-mexico-league/
• The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball: Second Edition

• http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=647&pid=16946
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050128201005/http://www.geocities.com/big_bunko/westtexasnewmexico3742.htm