Western Canada Baseball

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           Links ... Some other sites to take you back to the glory days.
   
 

The web presence of Bill Guenthner's extraordinary work into the history of the Minot (ND) Mallards, particularly the period 1950 to 1957 when the club was a dominant force in the Mandak League.
 

 

SABR-Quebec  offers a history of baseball in Quebec, especially the  Provincial Leagues. The SABR site follows an earlier effort by Christian Trudeau. 
 

 

Town Ball, The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball    Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek are rounding first in their new project -- amateur baseball in Minnesota. The web site is an adjunct to a book to be  published on the amazing growth of the sport in Minnesota in the period after the war to about 1960.
  

 

Alabama-Florida League
Alabama - Florida League    The league (in all forms) operated from 1936 to 1962.  Scott Parks' site has year-by-year summaries, records, photos, profiles and more.  (If you look carefully you'll find a picture of Southern Alberta star John Vaselenak in his pro tour in the league).

  

 

Cuban Baseball
Cesar Lopez has put together a fascinating site on Cuban Baseball, "A Fans Tribute", which includes  sections on Cubans who played in the Negro Leagues and the Major Leagues. 
  
  

 

Diamond AngleDavid Marasco's Diamond Angle which is a growing concern covering the Negro Leagues with recent additions on Caribbean and Japanese baseball.  Lots of original work.
  

 

House of David
House of David Research Project
   Terry Bertolino and Joel Hawkins are the authors of The House of David Baseball Team and continue their research into the history of the legendary House of David barnstorming teams which were regular visitors to the prairies up to the mid 1950s.  

  
  

 

Midwest LeagueMidwest League   If only all leagues had sites like this.  Joel Dinda's incredible work sets the standard.
  

 

Nisei Baseball

Nisei Baseball   The story of Japanese-American baseball. Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama (Fresno State, 1950-51-52) is among those featured.
  

 

Oakland OaksOakland Oaks of 1948   William Shubb takes you back to 1948 to relive the glory days of the Oakland Oaks.  
  

 

Patchy's
Patchy's Lost in the 50s   " ... close your eyes baby, follow my heart, call on the memories, here in the dark, we'll let the magic, take us away ... back to the feelins we shared when they played ......''  from the song Lost In The 50's Tonight.  Music of the 50s.  Unbelievable selection.

  

 

Pitch BlackPitchBlackBaseball  Kyle McNary on Double-Duty Radcliffe and the fabulous Bismarck team of 1935.  The book is out and the movie is on the way.  History of intergrated teams in North Dakoka in the 30s.
  

 

Seattle Steelheads
Seattle Steelheads
   In his history of Seattle baseball, John Reeves has included the story of the city's Negro League team, the Steelheads (the Harlem Globetrotters in disguise).
  

 

True BaseballTrue Baseball  An informative and entertaining site which includes the Negro leagues and barnstorming clubs.  Many photos. 
  

 

Negro League Baseball Players AssocationSite of the Negro League Baseball Players Association a non-profit group dedicated to " to honor and celebrate the significant contribution of Negro Leagues players to baseball and American history, to collect and preserve that history, to educate others so that Negro League players may be a source of pride and inspiration for generations to come, and to support and promote the general and financial well being of former Negro Leagues players."  
  

 

Fascinating site with photos, rosters, statistics on the famed Alaska Goldpanners which, with the collapse of the Canadian prairie leagues, became a favourite destination of college stars hoping to hone their skills before embarking on pro careers.
 

 

Home site of the Victoria (BC) & District Baseball Association.  The history of baseball in the city goes back to 1896. 

 

Minnesota Baseball Greats


Herb Schaper, former Minnesota sports editor, has kicked off a project to "recognize and honor the individuals and events that created the outstanding and most memorable achievements of Minnesota baseball history." Backed by an impressive advisory board, Herb is hoping to begin taking nominations later this year with the first induction ceremony in 2007. The current task is to get the web site, Minnesota Baseball Greats, fine-tuned. It's heartening to see yet another historical baseball site on line.

   
 

Books used in Western Canada research  :

Ted "DOUBLE DUTY" Radcliffe : 36 Years of Pitching & Catching in 
Baseball's Negro Leagues
  by Kyle P. McNary

THE NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUES A Photographic History By Phil Dixon with Patrick J. Hannigan

The Negro Leagues Book Edited by Dick Clark and Larry Lester

When the Game Was Black and White The Illustrated History Of Baseball's Negro Leagues by Bruce Chadwick

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues  by James A. Riley

Wheat Province Diamonds A Story of Saskatchewan Baseball by Paul Hack and Dave Shury

The Rajah of Renfrew The Life and Times of John E. Ducey,  "Edmonton's Mr. Baseball"  by Brant E. Ducey

Glory days of summer: the history of baseball in Oklahoma by Bob Burke, K.A. Franks, and Royse Parr

  

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