John FitzGerald's photos with the keyword: baseball

The London (Ontario) Tecumsehs of the International Association for Professional Baseball Players in 1877, the year they won the league's first championship. The team is named for the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who fought the Americans in Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812, dying at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario. Despite fighting against the Americans, he remains highly regarded by Americans, Canadians, and First Nations/Native Americans alike. Fred Goldsmith, on the far left, is one of three pitchers (the others being Candy Cummings and Phonney Martin) credited with inventing the curveball. Uploaded for the sports team category at the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Christie Pits, Toronto. Toronto Maple Leafs at home in the Intercounty Baseball League, a sandlot league in Central and Southwestern Ontario. Since 2009, when this game was played, I have lost my notes about who the opponent was. The Leafs are in the field here, and I still remember that they won. In 1909 the city converted an old sandpit at the corner of Bloor and Christie and called it Willowvale Park. Everybody else called it Christie Pits, though, and in 1983 the city finally gave in and renamed it Christie Pits Park.