Editing Sinton, Texas (section)

==Sports==
From 1948 to 1958, Sinton was the home to the Plymouth Oilers, a semiprofessional baseball team sponsored by Plymouth Oil Company, which had extensive drilling operations on the Welder Ranch, north of the city.  The team hired star college players for the summer and gave them jobs in the field, gas plant, and office. Experienced players were hired on a permanent basis.  By 1950, the Oilers were playing a 46-game schedule, going 33–13 and placing fourth in the [[National Baseball Congress]] national, semipro tournament.  In 1951, the Oilers returned to the national championship after winning the state title in Oiler Park before a record crowd of 2,304.  At the national tournament in Wichita against the Camp Pickett (Virginia) Red Wings, Oiler pitcher Mike Blyzka turned in a no-hit, no-run game (5–0), the second in tournament history. The Oilers then defeated Atwater (California) 3–0 to win the national championship, the first Texas team to do so,  They returned to nationals in 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957, placing second in 1955. In 1957, the National Baseball Congress declared Sinton, Texas, the premier city in the nation, per capita, for promoting semipro baseball for nearly a decade. In the spring of 1958, the Plymouth Oil Company, citing economic conditions, ended its support of the Oilers, and the team disbanded.