1956 Alberta Snap Shots                                                         Snapshots 1   Snapshots 2

Harry Watson of Picture Butte scampers to first.  Fred Burley of Vulcan is the
catcher, Roy Wellman, the umpire. The 1956 action is at the new park in Vulcan.
(Jack Altman photo)

Young lefty Pat Gillick after his 4-hit, 17 K performance in the Calgary Tournament.  Manager George Wesley, bottom left, Ted Bogal, top left, and Bill Fennessey.  Gillick had earlier tossed a no-hitter in the Medicine Hat Tourney.  (Lethbridge Herald, August 27, 1956)

Left:  Jim Lester, Willie Walasko, Ted Bogal and Gord Vejprava at the border crossing heading for Wyoming!  Right:  Henderson Stadium in Lethbridge (Photos courtesy Jim Lester)

A trio of hurlers for the Picture Butte Indians.  Left to right -- Tom Snowden, Gary Harrison, John Chavez. (Photo courtesy Gary Harrison)
 

Left - Ted Bogal, catcher for Granum White Sox.  Bogal played for two seasons in Alberta before a long career in Ontario's Inter-County league.  (Photo courtesy of Ted Bogal)

Right - Bentley MacEwen of Granum.  From Delisle's Bentley family to an extended pitching career on the prairies. (Photo courtesy of Ted Bogal)

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