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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.
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 ...
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 Chatham-Kent Barnstormers are an independent minor league baseball team based in Chatham, Ontario, playing in the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL). The team was founded in 2024 and play their home games at the 1,100 seat Fergie Jenkins Field.
Brantford first joined the Intercounty Baseball League in 1921 but not under the name "Red Sox"(that name was in use by the Brantford team in the Michigan-Ontario League). It was in 1946 when Brantford first had a team named the Red Sox in the I-C (intermediate division).
The St. Thomas Elgins were an independent, minor league baseball team of the semi-professional Intercounty Baseball League based in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.They began play as the St. Thomas Legion in 1948 and were renamed the Elgins in 1953; the team disappeared in 1961 and re-emerged as few years after and lasted until 1996.
For many years, Stratford was a premier franchise in the Intercounty Baseball League and one of the league's founding members in 1919 (along with Galt, Guelph, and Kitchener). The team operated at various times as the Stratford Nationals, the Stratford Kraven Knits, and Stratford Hillers.