From the University of San Francisco to the Canadian prairies to McGuigan & McGuigan (father and sons in the family business) Chartered Accounts, Burlingame, CA (just outside San Francisco). Thirteen grandchildren too! Not bad for a "scrappy little infielder" who did a pretty fair job modeling the Lloydminster home uniform (uh, baggy was IN in the 50s!).  

Hard to believe it's been forty-six years since he unpacked his bags in my dad's modest little house on the prairie.  Not hard to believe that it's his autograph which shows up at the top of the list in the batboy's 1950s autograph book.  

My "out of the blue" telephone call to Chuck, forty-five years since we last talked, is an amazing example of the power of memories and that fascinating storage device we call the human brain.

While, over the last decade or so, we've been bombarded with so much information about the computer age and how these instruments are just so smart  they can make millions, perhaps billions, of calculations per millisecond.  Well, how about that marvelous internal computer that, in the blink of an eye, immediately remembered the 'ol batboy, his family, and the town upon hearing a voice from forty-five years in the past?  

Chuck (right, in his 2000 web site photo) and wife, Jean, have been extremely helpful in providing information and photographs from Chuck's years in the Western Canada League.  

Above, left to right -- Lloydminster Meridians 1955, Four Amigos -- Bob Bayless, Chuck McGuigan, Dick Barry, Bill Duft

Left - Making the play.  Note the sleeve patches on the road uniforms - the provincial emblems of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
 

Above -- Moose Jaw 1953, Chuck McGuigan's first taste of prairie baseball.  

Right -- Shelved late in the 1953 season (with Moose Jaw) with a broken ankle suffered while sliding into second base.