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Photograph courtesy of Windsor / Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (WECSHOF);http://wecshof.org
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Photograph courtesy of Windsor / Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (WECSHOF)
;http://wecshof.org
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Photograph courtesy of Windsor / Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (WECSHOF) ;http://wecshof.org
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The Windsor Stars was comprised of young men who lived in the McDougall Avenue/Wigle Park neighbourhood of Windsor in the 1930s.
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Dayus Roofers of Windsor sponsored a team in the 1940s.
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Warren “Pappy” Allen was general manager of the Mavericks, sponsored by the Junior Lodge (Masons) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Chatham-Coloured All-Stars (1932-1939) won the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association Championship, B-1 Intermediate division in 1934. The team included players from Chatham, Buxton, Windsor, and Detroit. The All-Stars’ Joseph “Happy” Parker, manager, and Percy Parker, third-base coach, were also involved with an earlier team, the Chatham Giants, which played in a southwestern Ontario league in the 1920s.
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Warren “Pappy” Allen was general manager of the Mavericks, sponsored by the Junior Lodge (Masons) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Kent Panthers played in the Western Counties Baseball League in the late 1950s, and included Wilfred “Boomer” Harding and sons of fellow Chatham Coloured All-Stars player, Earl “Flat” Chase, Horace and Earl Jr. Chase.
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The South End Tigers, coached by Ronald Smith, were active in Windsor in the early 1930s.
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The Coloured Giants, a Windsor team playing in the 1930s, featured Ronald Smith, Fred Thomas who went on to have a multi-sport career, boxer Earl Walls, former Chatham Coloured All-Stars player Cliff Olbey, and Warren Allen who later managed the Mavericks boys’ team, among others.
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A 1960s girls’ relay team from J.C. Patterson Collegiate Institute, Windsor featuring
Nancy Allen, Sherry Morgan, Lee Chase and Pat Harrison. Patterson was in the
McDougall Avenue/Wigle Park neighbourhood.
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Linda McCurdy, a champion high jumper from Windsor, competed through her high school and university careers and represented Canada at the Junior Pan American Games, the Canada Summer Games and the Commonwealth games.
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In the 1990s, Tashlyn Chase was a member of the University of Windsor’s Canadian Inter-university Athletic Union Women’s Championship team
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The 1905 championship baseball team from Dougall Avenue School, an elementary academy in downtown Windsor.
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Charlie Stewart, who grew up in Amherstburg, boxed as both an amateur and professional in the 1970s before turning to coaching at the Windsor Amateur Boxing Club (where he has been President since 1992) and for the Canadian Olympic team.
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Club 240 was a community athletic club sponsored by Ford Local 240 in Windsor. High school athletes Pat Harrison and Mimi Chase are at right.
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Many of Windsor’s Black baseball teams, like the Windsor Stars (late 1930s, early 1940s), played at Wigle Park, at McDougall and Erie Streets. The former park grandstand can be seen in the background.
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Caption: The Windsor Stars of the 1930s -- Ken Milburn, William Bush Sr. and Earl “Flat” Chase. Chase was raised near Windsor’s Wigle Park and later played with the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
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A Windsor team from the 1940s, Cock Brothers.
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