Crowd gathering for a baseball tournament
- IHM.2021.0169
- Item
- [ca 1952]
Parte de Recreation Collection
A crowd gathering outside of the headquarters for a baseball tournament at Indian Head
Crowd gathering for a baseball tournament
Parte de Recreation Collection
A crowd gathering outside of the headquarters for a baseball tournament at Indian Head
Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960
Parte de Book Collection
A 203-page softcover book with an alphabetically organized series of biographies of about 500 baseball players who played for various teams throughout Canada from 1881 to 1960. It includes many players of the barn-storming teams that played on the prairies during the 1950s, including the Indian Head Rockets. Writeups include: Nathaniel "Nat" Bates, who pitched for the Rockets in 1952 and visited Saskatchewan in 2022 for the induction of the Indian Head Rockets (1950-1954) into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in Battleford and for the opening off the Indian Head Rockets display at the Indian Head Museum; Elijah "Pumpsie" Green who also played for the Rockets and was the first black player on the Boston Red Sox. Many other Indian Head Rockets players are also included.
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Our Game Too - Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball
Parte de 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).