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Ray Washburn tossed the only
no-hitter of the 1959 season.
"Nobody really thought it was a
no-hitter" said Washburn, "I walked so many, eight I think, and there were
runners on the bases all night. I walked in two."
Many of the prairie baseball stars were also stars
on ice. Gordie Vejprava was among them. (Calgary
Herald, August 7, 1959)
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Key members of the White Sox playoff drive
-- Brack Bailey, Darryl Wilson, Larry Koentopp,
Dick Creighton, and at the rear, batboy Gregg Park.
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Monarchs won the 1959
Lethbridge tournament beating
Drain 9-5 in the final. Homers by Paul Gilbert (left),
Jesse Mitchell (centre) and Willie Washington
(right) brought Kansas City back from a 5-1 deficit.
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Drain Black Sox, 1958 US semi-pro champs
were one of the entries in the Lethbridge Tournament. Left to right:
pitcher Dick Montee, playing-manager Ray Stratton,
third baseman Jim Phifer.
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Thad Tillotson (centre)
tossed a three-hitter in the Lethbridge Tournament but lost 1-0 to Tommy Taylor (right)
of the Kansas City Monarchs on a homer by Bob Herron (left).
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August 2, 1959 the first game under the lights in
Lethbridge. An
overflow crowd of 18-hundred at Henderson Park was on hand as the Sox
whipped Kansas City Monarchs 14-2.
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Left - Dave Biggers, Lethbridge White Sox
stretching out to make the catch. Right - Three of the 1959 Western Canada players would, in 1965, be teammates on
the Los Angeles Dodgers' Spokane Indians. Brack Bailey (right),
Thad Tillotson (centre) and John Werhas (left) |
