Eighty-Niner
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Eighty-Niners are those settlers that arrived in the unassigned (formerly Native occupied) lands with the land run of 1889. It was from this group of mostly white settlers that the city of Oklahoma Station, now known as Oklahoma City, was founded on April 22, 1889. Many of these settlers were known as Boomers. There were also others that had entered the area illegally prior to the official beginning of the land run. They were known as Sooners.
Eighty-Niners, or 89ers, was also the nickname of Oklahoma City's minor league baseball team from 1962 until 1997.
