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United Linen Braves 2011 Baseball Schedule

It's that time of year again for America's favorite pasttime, baseball.  And that also means another great year of United Linen sponoring the Braves American Legion baseball program.

This weekend is the United Linen Classic hosted at the Doenges Memorial Stadium here in Bartlesville, OK.  The United Linen Braves will be playing tonight, Friday, June 3rd at 7:30pm, on Saturday, June 4th at 5:30pm and the Sunday schedule is to be announced.

For the Season Schedule, please see below:

6/7/11    vs Verdigris (2)        5:30pm

6/10/11  @ Sapulpa (2)            5:30pm

6/14/11    @ Oologah (2)         5:30pm

6/17/11    vs. Claremore (2)   5:30pm

6/21/11    @ Skiatook (2)        5:30pm

6/23-25    @ Pryor                    TBA

6/28/11    vs. Pryor (2)            5:30pm

7/5-9        Three Rivers League Tournament    TBA @ Pryor and Claremore

7/12/11    @ Sequoyah (2)        5:30pm

7/18-21    Regional Tournament    TBA

7/22-24    State Tournament        TBA

*Home Games are in bold

*Double Headers are 7 innings & 5 innings

We hope to see you at the ballpark.  Play ball!!

 

 

 

Write Up In American Express @OPENForum

Several years back United Linen had the honor of being written about by Shel Israel in his book, Twitterville and below is one of the many pictures I took while attending the Twitterville book launch.

In Twitterville, he picked up on the aspect of United Linen being an older business that is still creative and innovative in it's approach to probelm solving and customer service.  Shel is now writing another book and also writing for various publications including American Express's @OPENforum.  Shel is following up on several companies he profiled in Twitterville for the OPENForum column, including ours.  To see the article, click on the link below.

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/marketing/article/what-a-small-linen-company-can-teach-you-about-social-media-shel-israel

To buy a copy of Twitterville, click on the Amazon Affiliate link on the right hand side of this blog post.

If you are a small business and use social media tools in your marketing, we would like to hear how you are doing.  Problems?  Successes?

The comments are yours.

 

ULTV: Michael Banks of Los Cabos Mexican Grill and Cantina

Click on the link to find out more about Los Cabos Mexican Grill and Cantina and the Waterfront Grill.

ULTV: Customer Testimonial from Sal's Daylight Donut's Mark McKinnon

75 Years

Just wanted to take a minute and give you a preview of our new logo helping us celebrate our 75th year in business.  Take a look and let us know what you think?

Right Conditions

(From time to time we will be using our blog as a place to store facts, figures, stories, dates and events to use for our 75th Anniversary celebration in 2011)

   

This time of year you can feel winter moving it's way into the shorter days. The wind shifts direction and the air gets heavier.  And whether it's in the dead of winter or the dog days of summer, I think of 1936, and it keeps me in perspective.

I know of 1936 because this is the year United Linen got started.  And while doing research on the year, I found out 1936 was one of the most extreme years for recorded temperatures in North America.  Cold temperatures and hot temperatures.

According to Wikipedia, the Heat Wave of 1936 saw some of the highest temperatures every recorded in North American history. How hot was it?

1.  More than 5000 people died because of the heat.

2.  The highest recorded temperature was in North Dakota, at a wilting 121 degrees Fahrenheit.

3.  At 200 degrees, the soil was so hot, it sterilized what little nutrients were left or had not been blown away during the Dust Bowl.

It wasn't the best of times to start a business.  And yet, on the other hand, it was the perfect time.  In beginning a new endeavor, it's probably a good thing we don't always know how the deck might be stacked.  We can always find a reason to "wait and see".  We can wait until the weather gets cooler.  We can wait until it warms up so we can start motivating. And while some wait for conditions to get better before starting, thank goodness for others like Gerald Saddoris who started before conditions got better. 

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