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1953 Indian Head Baseball tournament card

IHM.2021.0197
Item
July 15-16 1953

A card containing the events of the 1953 Indian Head baseball tournament on the front side.
Advertisements for the other events happening the nights after the tournament and charts to allow fans to keep score on the back side.

1953 Indian Head Rockets gathered around their trophy

IHM.2021.0352
Item
1953

Part of Recreation Collection

The Indian Head Rockets (Florida Cubans) with their trophy

Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)

1953 Indian Head Rockets with trophy

IHM.2021.0155
Item
1953

Part of Recreation Collection

The Indian Head Rockets (Florida Cubans) with a recently won trophy

Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)

1954 Foam Lake Falcons

IHM.2021.0149
Item
1954

Part of Recreation Collection

The Foam Lake Falcons at their home baseball tournament

Foam Lake Falcons

1954 Indian Head Baseball tournament card

IHM.2021.0198
Item
July 14-15, 1954

Part of Recreation Collection

A card containing the events of the 1953 Indian Head baseball tournament on the front side.
Advertisements for the other events happening the nights after the tournament and charts to allow fans to keep score on the back side.

1955 Indian Head Baseball tournament card

IHM.2021.0199
Item
July 13-14 1955

Part of Recreation Collection

A card containing the events of the 1954 Indian Head baseball tournament on the front side.
Advertisements for the other events happening the nights after the tournament and charts to allow fans to keep score on the back side.

Baseball player running home

IHM.2021.0187
Item
[ca 1950]

Part of Recreation Collection

A player is running to home while the catcher awaits a throw.

Baseball player sliding into home

IHM.2021.0188
Item
[ca 1950]

Part of Recreation Collection

The umpire watches a player sliding into home base while the catcher attempts to tag him.

Baseball team - town unidentified

IHM.2021.0375
Item
[ca 1950]

Part of Recreation Collection

The "Sports" baseball team in a posed photograph.

Baseball team - unidentified town 1934

IHM.2021.0376
Item
July 1934

Part of Recreation Collection

A baseball team with "G" on their baseball sweaters in Round Lake. Possibly the Brandon Greys.

B.B. Green, Indian Head Rockets player

IHM.2021.0177
Item
[ca 1952]

Part of Recreation Collection

B.B. Green, Indian Head Rockets player, in his Rockets uniform.

Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)

Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960

IHM.2022.0191
Item
2009

Part of 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.

Swanton, Barry