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Newspaper clipping reproduction with a photo of the Welland Atlas Steels baseball team, considered the most powerful baseball team to ever represent Welland. They won the 1944 Ontario Senior A baseball championship going over the London Majors.…

Newspaper clipping about Welland native Paul Beeston joining the Order of Canada. It also mentions other inductees that year including John Crosbie, Peter Gzowski, Normie Kwong, P.K. Page, and Sally Armstrong. From the February 4, 1999 edition of the…

Newspaper clipping reproduction with a photograph of the Welland semi-pro baseball team, c. 1912, with an article describing the high quality of players on the team.

Front row, from left to right: Joe Hickey; Ernie Rogers, Welland pitching star…

Newspaper clipping reproduction showing a photo of the Welland Beavers baseball team with text that describes how they nearly brought the Ontario junior championship to Welland in 1922.

Top row, from left to right: Fred Curtin,…

Newspaper clipping reproduction showing the National Textiles baseball team, c. 1942, who were the first Welland baseball team to win a senior Ontario championship.

Front row, from left to right: Jack Goss; Eric Cowie; Vic Goberis; Wray Upper,…

Black and white photographic print of the Page-Hersey baseball club, c. 1913, at the Plymouth Cordage grounds.

Front row, from left to right: John D. O'Holleran; Earl Colley; Mac MacKay; Harry Herpel, manager; Tom Menek; Fred Sage. Back row, from…

Newspaper clipping about the Welland Pirates game against the Pittsfield Mets. It discusses the play of Tim Wakefield, who switched mid-game from third baseman to relief pitcher and excelled, despite the Welland Pirates ultimately losing the game…

Newspaper clipping reproduction showing the Crowland Maple Leafs baseball team c. 1922. They made the Welland City League championship that year but lost to Empire Cotton Mills.

Back row, from left to right: Bob Watt, a former policeman in…

Newspaper clipping reproduction with a photograph of the Empire Cotton Mills baseball team, c. 1922, called the top team in Welland for a number of years.

Front row, from left to right: Jack Garner; O'Sullivan, mascot; MacKay. Centre row, from…

Two black and white photographs of guests at the head table at the Runge-Maglie sports celebrity dinner, at the Knights of Columbus Hall. From T.N. Morrison's personal collection, former editor of the Welland Tribune. The ceremony jointly honored Sal…