Editing Labatt Park (section)

==Negro leagues and other players==

During the first half of the 20th century, Labatt Park (Tecumseh Park until December 31, 1936) was regularly visited by numerous [[barnstorm (sports)|barnstorm]]ing [[Negro]] teams from the U.S., plus a much-celebrated visit by legendary African-American pitcher [[Satchel Paige]] on June 30, 1954, when Paige was barnstorming with a baseball version of the [[Harlem Globetrotters]]. Paige pitched the last three innings of an exhibition game against another legendary barnstorming team—The [[House of David (commune)|House of David]] baseball team, who all sported beards and long hair and travelled with their own generator-powered lights (before Labatt Park installed lights in the early 1940s), which featured noted baseball clown, Frank (Bobo) Nickerson.

As of October 1, 1923, The London Colored Stars, a Negro baseball team, had won 15 of 19 games and announced they "are looking for more engagements."

Additionally, numerous former players with the [[Negro leagues]] played in the Senior [[Intercounty Baseball League]] after the Negro leagues gradually folded after Jackie Robinson broke the "colour barrier" in 1947, including pitcher Ted Alexander of the [[Kansas City Monarchs]] and the [[Homestead Grays]] (1950-51 [[London Majors]]); [[Wilmer Fields]] ([[Brantford Red Sox]]); [[Jimmy Wilkes]] (retired jersey #5 for the Brantford Red Sox, later became a City league umpire after a decade with Brantford); Gentry (Geep) Jessup (Galt Terriers); Larry Cunningham (Galt Terriers, [[Hamilton Cardinals]]); Ed Steele (Galt) and Shanty Clifford (Galt and Brantford); Luther Clifford; Max Manning; Lester Lockett; Bob Thurman and [[Stanley Glenn]] ([[St. Thomas Elgins]]); all made numerous appearances at Labatt Park in the 1950s.

The late Wilmer (The Great) Fields is a former president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Association (NLBPA), while Stanley (Doc) Glenn is currently the president of the NLBPA.