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The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) was founded in 1919 with just four cities represented — Galt, Guelph, Stratford and Kitchener, and is the oldest amateur men's league in Canada. [2] During the early years, the league expanded to include the cities of Waterloo, Brantford, Preston, London, and St. Thomas.
This is a list of past baseball playoff champions of the Intercounty Baseball League, an independent baseball league in Ontario. The team with most championships (16) are the Stratford Nationals/Kraven Knits/Hillers.
Arden Eddie (born August 4, 1947) is a Canadian former baseball player, team owner and manager who played in the Intercounty Baseball League. He holds several Intercounty records, including most games played (834), most bases on balls (668) and most stolen bases (170). In 2007, Eddie was inducted into the London Sports Hall of Fame.
In 1936, Frank Colman started out at Labatt Park with the London Winery of the Senior Intercounty Baseball League, winning the Most Valuable Player award, batting title and Intercounty Baseball League championship. Colman was 25 when he broke into the major leagues as a right fielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates, playing with them from 1942 ...
In 1948 London Majors, considered one of the best teams in Intercounty history, not only won the Intercounty League championship, but the Canadian Baseball Congress Championship and the Can-Am North American championship of the National Baseball Congress beating the Fort Wayne, Indiana, General Electrics in a best-of-seven-game series played at Labatt Park, with such London stars as pitcher ...
The Hamilton Cardinals are a Canadian baseball team based in Hamilton, Ontario and a member club of the Intercounty Baseball League. Founded in 1958, [1] the club is the second oldest sports team in the city of Hamilton. Many of the team's players are former major leaguers and minor professionals, as well as current and former NCAA or U Sports ...
The sporting goods store was the meeting place for a number of Londoners interested in forming a baseball league for youths. The following year in 1955, Colman took over the Intercounty League's London Majors at Labatt Park, where it all began for Colman 20 years earlier. Colman's brother Jack (who died in 1962), helped coach the 1955 London ...
Stanley "Doc" Glenn (September 19, 1926 – April 16, 2011) was a baseball catcher with the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro leagues from 1944 to 1950. He also played three years in the minors and two in the Canadian senior Intercounty Baseball League in southwestern Ontario for the St. Thomas Elgins in the early 1950s.