Category: Baseball
Baseball in Chatham-Kent
Chatham Coloured All-Stars Receive Order of Sport
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars are finally receiving the recognition they deserve. The fabled local team, who became the first all-Black baseball team to win a ... Read More
Fergie Jenkins Statue To Be Unveiled May 20
Outside Wrigley Field in Chicago, a new statue honouring Chatham's Fergie Jenkins will be unveiled May 20. Jenkins spent 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, ... Read More
Group Looking At Chatham To House Semi-Professional Baseball Team
The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is one of Canada's longest running and most successful baseball leagues. In the near future, an IBL expansion team could ... Read More
MPP Percy Hatfield Urges Inclusion Of Chatham Coloured All-Stars in Hall of Fame
Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Percy Hatfield spoke in provincial legislature Monday in favour of including the Chatham Coloured All-Stars into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. "....it’s ... Read More
A Legacy of Impact, The Chatham Coloured All-Stars | Black History Month
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars will stand in history as one of the most impactful and important teams in Canadian Baseball history. Members of the Ontario ... Read More
The Chatham-Kent Connection That Got Jackie Robinson To The Majors | Black History Month
Without Wendell Smith, the history of sport may look completely different. He challenged ideas, racism, and exclusion in sport one word at a time. It’s ... Read More
Flat Chase Was a Baseball Legend | Black History Month
Born in Buxton, Ontario in 1910, Earl “Flat” Chase was one of the region’s top young baseball players in the first half of the 1900’s. ... Read More
Toronto Blue Jays Skills Camp Coming To Chatham
The Toronto Blue Jays have announced that the Chatham Minor Baseball Association has been selected once again to host of a 2022 Honda Instructional Clinic at Fergie ... Read More
When Jim Dudley Came To Bat | Black History Month
Jim Dudley was one of the best ball players Chatham-Kent has seen. As a teenager, Dudley, who also went by James, and J.C., played baseball ... Read More
Jarvis Cook, A Man of Many Sports | Black History Month
Jarvis Cook, back row, third from right. Jarvis Cook could play... It didn't matter what sport you finished that sentence with, Dresden's Jarvis Cook was ... Read More
Chatham Coloured All-Stars Shunned By Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame named their 2022 induction class on February 2. The "class" was a single person, former professional baseball player Jeff ... Read More
The Buxton Bloomers, Chatham-Kent’s First All-Black Women’s Fastball Team | Black History Month
The Buxton Bloomers In recent years, the story of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars has been told in a variety of mediums. Their place in history ... Read More
What A Catch: Before Fishing, The Izumi’s Were A Baseball Family
Joe Izumi, Harry Izumi, and Mits Izumi stand posed with the Chemainus Nippons in 1939 The name Izumi is synonymous with fishing, but it wasn't ... Read More
Maddie Depencier Headed Iowa Western
Local softball player Maddie Depencier will play college softball next year for Iowa Western after committing to the school. Depencier felt Iowa was the best ... Read More