ROMANCE - 1902 BASEBALL TEAM

This is the community baseball team at Romance about 1902.  The photograph was published in a 454-page history of the Rogers family published in 2005.  The players are (from left to right):  Back row - Homer Gross, Earl Barnett, Ham Rogers, Hog Gilliam; third row - Chester Shultz, Jim Ward; second row - W.O. Hopkins, Jim Foster, Joe Coston, New Coston; front row - Elmore Rogers.  A copy of the Rogers history was donated to the White County Historical Society by the author, Georgia Rogers, and was placed in the Arkansas Room of the Searcy Public Library.  Copies may be purchased for $45 from Mrs. Rogers at121 Heights Road, Romance, AR 72136.  She has also written a later history of Ham Rogers and his family