Looking back to historic Indian Head Rockets
- IHM.2023.0042
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- 2022
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Newspaper article written by Calvin Daniels
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Looking back to historic Indian Head Rockets
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Newspaper article written by Calvin Daniels
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Our Game Too - Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball
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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).
Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960
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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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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.
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Juan Prats in a suit outside. He was a member of the Florida Cubans that played as the Indian Head Rockets in 1953.
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1954 Indian Head Baseball tournament card
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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.
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Tom Alston playing in his Cardinals Uniform. Picture was mailed by Alston to Jimmy Robison
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Burning the diamonds before the game
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Burning the diamonds before the tournament was done to dry them out
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Indian Head Rockets waiting to receive their trophy
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The crowd gathered around the trophy moments before it was awarded to the Indian Head Rockets (Florida Cubans).
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Gilberto Yzquierdo receiving a trophy
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Gilberto Yzquierdo, manager of the Rockets (Florida Cubans), receiving the trophy for having won the Sixth Annual Indian Head Ball Tournament.
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1953 Indian Head Baseball tournament card
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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.
Indian Head Rockets in Camrose, Alberta
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The Indian Head Rockets )Florida Cubans) with their trophy
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The diamonds burning before the game
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Burning the diamonds before the tournament was done to dry them out
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1953 Indian Head Rockets with trophy
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The Indian Head Rockets (Florida Cubans) with a recently won trophy
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Indian Head Rockets receiving trophy
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Jose Hernandez and the rest of the Rockets (Florida Cubans) receiving their trophy
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