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Gilberts: A great baseball story you’ve probably never heard of

Most of you have probably heard, since you were young, that baseball was and is “America’s game.”

Most of you have probably heard, since you were young, that baseball was and is “America’s game.”

While it certainly is true that baseball has been the game of summer south of the border for over a century, that doesn’t preclude the fact that Canada has its own very rich baseball history.

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And some of that history has involved Chatham-Kent. Long-time readers of this column know that Jim has recounted many interesting stories – about Rube Waddell, Sam Crawford and Doc Miller, as well as the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, among other baseball stories. And then there are Fergie Jenkins, Bill Atkinson and Doug Melvin.

But if you come to the Kent Historical Society meeting this coming Thursday, April 9, you will learn about another very interesting episode from baseball’s history book that took place in Thamesville in 1947.

Dan Kelly, a retired school administrator, has spent many hours pouring over the old newspaper microfilms at the Chatham-Kent Public Library and he........

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