As the name indicates, the Class D level league had franchises based in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
The Ponca City Dodgers won three of the seven league titles, winning championships in 1948, 1950 and 1951.
The total attendance of the KOM league, in the seven year period, reached slightly over two million fans.
[1] In his first professional season, Mickey Mantle played for the 1949 Independence Yankees, hitting .313 with 7 HR, 63 RBI.
[2] Just graduated from high school in Oklahoma, Mantle received a $1,100 signing bonus from the New York Yankees and a salary of $400 for the rest of the season.
Although Iola owner Earl Sifers originally agreed to the arrangement he later changed his mind.
By the time the dispute was settled it was too late in the fall, young men had to go back to school, the rodeo took over the ball park playing area and then the rains came.
1947 Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League Teams from Independence, Kansas and Ponca City, Oklahoma joined.