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Our ace sleuth Rich Necker has been able to dig out a substantial amount of
information in relation to these photos of a 1940s Regina team. It appears the pictures are
from the 1942 Regina Red Sox which, for much of the season, featured a lineup of just ten players, coach Odie
Lowe and field manager Luther "Doc" Hughes (inducted into the Saskatchewan
Baseball Hall of Fame).
Petryna Steve
3B
Glasser Sully SS/P
Charlton Ken C/CF
Newton xxx RF/2B/C
Alexander "Lefty" 1B/LHP
Scheiman Bill LF
McDonald xxx 2B
Schmidt Johnny "Muttsy" CF
Booker Percy P/SS/1B
(sub)
Gooderman xxx RF/P
 Early in the
season, there were a few other players including - Obberhoffner SS, Krisco
1B, Allan SS and Halbert (or Helbert) LF.
Percy Booker tossed two no-hitters that summer, one of them during the
playoffs. The Sox played their home
games in 1942 at a venue referred to as the "Park de Young ball yard".
Rich asked the late Steve Petyna's brother Fred about the park and he said that Park de Young
was the top ball diamond in Regina at that time and that it was adjacent to
Park Hughes, a soccer field, and that the two, side-by-side facilities were
located just off 10th Avenue, now the site of Taylor Field.
Frank Germann has been identified as a member of the club. The
long-time Notre Dame star was a pickup by the Red Sox after the Hounds had
been knocked out of the 1942 playoffs.
If you can confirm any of these IDs or help with those still unidentified,
please get in touch. 
For example, could Regina 9 and Regina 10 below be the same player.
Could that player be Steve Petryna? Who are those identified as
Regina 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 below ? Thanks to Darren Leibham for putting a
name to the picture above, none other than Sully Glasser, his great uncle!
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