PHOTO GALLERY: Man collects memories of Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri Baseball League

May 5, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT

John Hall helps keep the memory of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri Baseball League alive. Hall, a longtime baseball fan, has collections of baseball cards and balls related to the league and maintains a database of 1,588 league players.

John Hall is a former bat boy for the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League and has spent a large portion of his retirement chronicling the league in books and newsletters. | Sam Gause

John Hall shows an autographed baseball from a team in the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League, also known as KOM. Friends and relatives of old KOM League players send Hall memorabilia and he collects it. Hall could name and tell a story about every name on the ball. | Sam Gause

John Hall shows his Stan Musial baseball cards on April 20 in his basement. Musial is Hall's favorite baseball player. Hall met Musial once as a kid and again as an adult. | Sam Gause