Nathaniel Bates signed baseball card
- IHM.2022.0168
- Item
- 2022
Part of Recreation Collection
A specially-designed baseball card of Nat Bates - a cropped excerpt from IHM.2021.0146
Indian Head Museum
Nathaniel Bates signed baseball card
Part of Recreation Collection
A specially-designed baseball card of Nat Bates - a cropped excerpt from IHM.2021.0146
Indian Head Museum
Our Game Too - Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball
Part of Book Collection
A 447-page softcover book about baseball in Canada. Contains a chapter - "Indian Head and Canada's Greatest Baseball Tournament 1947-55" - by Max Weder (pp. 386-396).
Pedro Osorio, Indian Head Rockets player
Part of Recreation Collection
Pedro Osorio, Indian Head Rockets player.
Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)
Part of Recreation Collection
Enlarged baseball card of Pumpsie Green, the first is a headshot of him in his New York Mets uniform, the second is him catching a ground ball in his Red Sox gear.
Richmond men inducted into Canadian Hall of Fame
Part of Recreation Collection
Printout of a newspaper article about Nat Bates and Willie Reed, former players (in 1952) of the Indian Head Rockets. Nat Bates traveled to Saskatchewan in August, 2022, to represent the Indian Head Rockets for their induction into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame (Battleford) and then traveled to Indian Head to visit the Indian Head Museum's new Rockets display and to speak to local residents, some of whom saw him play in 1952. Nat Bates was a right-handed pitcher.
Rockets baseball Player registration Agreements for 1951
Part of Recreation Collection
Fourteen single pages, each being a Player Registration Agreement between the Indian Head Rocket Baseball Club, represented by J.E. (Jimmy) Robison, president and C. Hunt, and individual players.
Robison, Jimmy
Part of Recreation Collection
Posed photograph of the Saskatoon Gems after a late night game
Saskatoon Gems (Baseball)
The diamonds burning before the game
Part of Recreation Collection
Burning the diamonds before the tournament was done to dry them out
Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)
The Legends of the Road are coming to Indian Head - newsclipping
Part of Recreation Collection
Newsclipping about a planned tour called "Legends of the Road" which would involve Black baseball players from the US touring North America for the 100th anniversary of the "Negro Leagues". Because of Indian Head's Rockets baseball team (1950-1954) and Ken McCabe and his "Saskatchewan Rural Sports Hall of Fame", the tour was considering a stop in Indian Head. It is not known if this happened.
Regina Leader-Post (Newspaper)
Part of Recreation Collection
Tom Alston playing in his Cardinals Uniform. Picture was mailed by Alston to Jimmy Robison
St. Louis Cardinals
Tom Alston at Cardinals workout
Part of Recreation Collection
Tom Alston in the middle of a St. Louis Cardinals workout. Tom Alston played for the Indian Head Rockets and later became the first Black player on the St. Louis Cardinals.
Toribio Leal, Indian Head Rockets player
Part of Recreation Collection
Toribio Leal, Indian Head Rockets left-handed pitcher, in his Rockets uniform mid-throw.
Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)
Part of Recreation Collection
The 1953 rosters of the Moose Jaw Maples, North Battleford Beavers, Regina Caps, and Saskatoon Gems.