There were plenty of smiles when Lester Prairie’s team won the 1950 Class B State Baseball Championship. They finished the 1950 season in second place but had a strong showing in the state tournament when they outscored their opponents 21-3 over a four-game stretch and beat Ulen 8-1 won the state championship.MCLEOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Tracing their roots back to the late 1800s, the Hutchinson Hornets competed fiercely in the late 1940s and 1950s Some would say that baseball is…