In 1949, the Bowie Bears baseball team, comprised of Mexican American students at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas won the statewide baseball championship. The players came from poor working class neighborhoods in El Paso, especially the Second Ward or as it is more commonly known, Segundo Barrio. In spite of rampant discrimination the team traveled to Austin, Texas where it defeated the most favored team in the state, The Austin High Maroons. Latinopia asked surviving members of the team about Segundo Barrio and how they beat all odds to win this historic championship.