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Western Canada Baseball League Schedule - 1953

A small (9 cm X 15 cm) 4-page green pamphlet listing all the games of the Western Canada Baseball League for 953. Johnny Esau of CKRM radio is pictured on the front. Glued on the inside covering much of the text are a newspaper photograph of Percy Trimont and a short article from Moose Jaw reporting a 14-game suspension and fine for Jim Williams, then the manager of the Regina Caps, - the previous year, he and his team were the Indian Head Rockets. The Indian Head Rockets do not appear in the schedule.

Western Canada Baseball League

Tom Alston at Cardinals workout

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.

Tom Alston

Tom Alston playing in his Cardinals Uniform. Picture was mailed by Alston to Jimmy Robison

St. Louis Cardinals

The Legends of the Road are coming to Indian Head - newsclipping

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)

The history of sport in Indian Head

A history of sports in Indian Head from the years after agricultural settlement in 1882 to 1977. It includes curling, cricket, baseball, hockey, football, golf. boxing and many more.

McCabe, Ken

Richmond men inducted into Canadian Hall of Fame

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.

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