Based in Kilgore, Texas playing their home games at Driller Park giving the Ballpark its name, it was the city's last professional baseball team.
Fred Baczewski also played for the team in 1948 and the 1949 club featured Merv Connors and Jerry Fahr.
They had played consistently winning baseball claiming two consecutive championships in the Lone Star League, were the runners-up in 1949, and had a respectable finish in 1950 before being disbanded.
In the championship series, the Drillers defeated the Comets 4 games to 2 to become the 1947 Lone Star League champions.
An excellent example of small stadium engineering, the ballpark was constructed of oil field pipe, tank steel, and concrete with an infield underground drainage system.