During the late 1910s and early 1920s, Major League Baseball teams would play in Fort Worth against the Panthers on their way from spring training to their home parks.
Texas fans enjoyed watching such major leaguers as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rogers Hornsby play in their home town.
[2] Doyle Williams, an FBI agent who portrayed Governor John Connally in the Warren Commission's 1964 reenactment of the Kennedy Assassination, briefly played in the Cats organization in the mid-1930s.
Rogers Hornsby was the Cats' manager in 1942, but World War II put an end to much of minor league baseball.
In 1959, Fort Worth left the Texas League to join the American Association, but they merged with the Dallas Rangers the following year.