Binger

Greg Luzinski, Prospect Heights, Illinois, left field.

Johnny Bench, Binger, Oklahoma, catcher, Cincinnati Reds.

Dave Kingman, New York, New York, right field.

Hi, I'm David Concepcion.

Greg Luzinski, Prospect Heights, Illinois, left field.

Johnny Bench, Binger, Oklahoma, catcher, Cincinnati Reds.

Dave Kingman, New York, New York, right field.

Hi, I'm Davey Concepcion.

The fence in front of the dugout kept that one from going in.

Johnny Bench from Binger, Oklahoma.

He's really put finger on the map.

Got a piece of it.

That was not in Dill City.

Oh, where was that? I think that was around Binger.

Or no, Cordell.

That's where it was.

Greg Luzinski, Prospect Heights, Illinois, left field.

Johnny Bench, Binger, Oklahoma, catcher, Cincinnati Reds.

Dave Kingman, New York, New York, right field.

Hi, I'm Davey Concepcion.

He compared it to a slug or a snail without a shell.

Then he wrote about a swimming resort that had been built on one of those lakes, a place he called Salyers Lake between Binger and Coger, with paddle boats and cabins, and he said it had the highest drowning rate of any resort in Oklahoma, that bodies were lost in the underwater caverns and never recovered, and that the state shut it down as a hazard in the sixties.

He said the Indians in that region wouldn't have gone there if you'd paid them, and he closed by naming three man-made lakes he said had drowning rates nobody could explain.

Tenkiller, Thunderbird, Oologah.