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We are very proud and very excited for another great year of Intercounty Baseball in the great City of BURLINGTON. Entering oursecond season, we have continued to develop our relationships with the City of Burlington, Burlington Organized Minor BaseballAssociation (BOMBA), the Burlington Brants and the Burlington Vintage Baseball League in an effort to help support baseball in theCity of Burlington, from the grass roots up! We share a passion for the game with these groups and will continue to work on bringinga Championship home to Burlington.

We love Burlington and we truly hope baseball fans and residents will embrace our Burlington Twins, your “HOMETOWNBASEBALL” team.

As we embark on another new season of TWINS baseball, we are encouraged by a strong playoff performance last season versusthe Toronto Maples Leafs and look to make our mark in the Intercounty League. From day one, it has been our mandate to provideaffordable, family entertainment and to give back and develop minor baseball in Burlington. We are proud to provide local playersa home team opportunity. To our many volunteers, to our family of corporate partners and to our new baseball fans, we thank you.

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A Message From The Coach

Welcome back for year two here in Burlington. It was a great season last year in somany ways and this season we hope to make it even better. As an organization, weare primed to turn the corner and become an elite team in the IBL this season. We havea strong returning core of players such as returning IBL all-stars Branson Joseph andKyle Bolton and with the addition of some new and exciting players we feel as if wehave the right pieces to improve on our regular season and make a long playoff run.The IBL brings to you, the fan, world class baseball, featuring a collection of some ofthe best college players and former professional players in Ontario. The coaching staffof Jamie Trull, John D’Angelo , Marc Lepage and I are committed to putting an excitingteam on the field that is dedicated to bringing a winner home to the great City ofBurlington. Our effort, determination, resilience and love of the game will take us to thenext level!

I look forward to seeing you at the park.

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If you see a pony tail peeking out behind an umpire’s cap on an Intercounty diamond, you’re not seeingthings. Burlington’s Lisa Turbitt has umpired in the league for the last seven years, setting the pace forfuture female arbiters. Lisa, who works full-time as a teacher at Chris Hadfield School in Milton, received theDick Willis Award as Baseball Canada’s top umpire in 2004.

Now retired and living in Burlington, lefthander Jack Roberts recorded one of the most remarkable achieve-ments in Ontario baseball history. Pitching for the Campbellville Merchants, Roberts threw back-to-back nohitters against the Corunna Giants to lead Campbellville to 1-0 and 7-0 wins and the OBA Intermediate Cchampionship in September of 1966. Only one major leaguer – Johnny Van der Meer of the 1938Cincinnati Reds – has done the same, when he beat the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers inconsecutive regular season starts. However, Van der Meer walked a total of 11 batters in the two games.Roberts, who had pitched for the Intercounty League’s Oakville Oaks in 1958, didn’t issue a single free passin either game!

Charles R. Beaudoin elementary school in Burlington is named after the late ‘Chuck’ Beaudoin, a memberof the Hamilton Cardinals Intercounty Baseball League championship team in 1978 – the only titleHamilton has ever won. Chuck taught in the Halton public school system for more than 25 years andendeared himself to students, teachers and parents through his work with the ‘Jump Rope for Heart’program. Chuck died in 2000, and later the school raised $45,000 in its campaign as a tribute to him.

Fisticuffs broke out at London’s Labatt Park in August of 1958 after the Guelph Merchants defeated theLondon Majors 9-7 to clinch the sixth and final playoff spot. Police were called and right in the middle of themelee, helping to sort things out, was New York Rangers defenseman Lou Fontinato, a native of Guelphwho had made the trip to London to watch the game. London’s Stan Gabby Anderson had knocked downtwo Guelph players before being contained. It was no coincidence that Fontinato had led the NHL in penaltyminutes in the 1957-58 season with 152!

Playing for Hamilton, Burlington’s John McTavish won the Intercounty batting championship in 1968with a mark of .420. Then in 2007 Burlington produced another batting champ in Joe Colameco of theToronto Maple Leafs, who hit .416. In 1960 Jack Price of Burlington finished second with a mark of .383 forHamilton. Colameco also played centre field and hit a lofty .375 for Canada at the Baseball World Cupin 1998.

In September of 1945, the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League made an exhibition tourafter the season and narrowly defeated the Intercounty champion London Majors 4-2 in a game at LabattPark in London.

The Burlington Twins are not the first Intercounty Baseball League team to play in the Region of Halton. In1958, the Oakville Oaks joined the league for one season and, surprisingly, won the regular season pennantwith a record of 23-9 for a fabulous winning percentage of .719. However, the Oaks lost in the first round ofthe playoffs and did not return for the 1959 season. Two of Oakville’s best sluggers – Bob Salvisburg andJack Price – were from Burlington.

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The Intercounty Baseball League has beena part of summer in Southern Ontario for93 years now. The League began in 1919with just four teams...Galt, Guelph, Stratfordand Kitchener. Despite a rocky start the InterCounty managed to survive its first season.

The rest, as they say is history.

It's a long and rich history too. In the earlyyears the League expanded with London,Brantford, Preston and St. Thomas joiningat various times.

By the mid 1930s, the Inter County hadestablished a reputation as one of Ontario'sbest amateur leagues. In fact when Stratfordwon the Ontario Baseball Association titlein 1934, it was the League's fifth OBA titlein a row.

The League survived the Second World War ingood shape, even though many players joinedthe armed forces. After the war, the Leaguebecame professional in everything but name.

The Inter County was considered by theprofessional ranks as an "outlaw" leagueat that time. The bidding war for playerswas fierce, and many ex major leagueplayers came to Ontario looking for a fewlast baseball bucks.

So many came, in fact, that the League wasconsidered on a par with many minor proleagues. Great crowds came out to see thegames, which were played under floodlightsfor the first time in the 1950s, and the seniorleague appointed its first commissioner, JohnGillies, a London lawyer and former pitcher inthe League.

The late 1950s and early 1960s were a tough

time for the League. Teams came in anddropped out, and in 1962 and 1963 onlyfive teams were entered; the lowest ever.

But things got better in the 1960’s, starting in1964. It was that year when Stratford rejoinedthe League as the city went on to become oneof the league's premiere franchises. In 1969the Inter County welcomed Toronto to theleague for the first time on the heels of thefolding of the International League's TorontoMaple Leafs.

Despite the competition from major leaguebaseball coming to Canada, the Inter Countycontinued on. There were never fewer thaneight teams in the League over the next twodecades, and with Waterloo's return in 1978,the League was comprised of the same teamsas in 1950. The growth hit a high point of 11teams in 1979 when the Windsor Chiefs joined.

It took a lot of dedicated people to run theLeague in this time period. Two of them, longtime commissioner Reuben Halpern, who wasin office from 1970 until 1986, and secretaryLorne Hamel were honoured by having theleague's two divisions named after them in1982. Hamel was the secretary from 1962 to1997.

The League was down to six teams in 1998however St. Thomas rejoined for the 2000season followed by two expansion teams,the Barrie Baycats in 2001 and the OshawaDodgers in 2002, which brought the numberof teams back up to nine. St. Thomas movedto Stratford in 2004 and the team was thenrelocated and currently operates in Burlington.In 2010, the Ottawa Fatcats joined theIntercounty League, bringing baseball backto Ottawa. 2011 brought about two changes inthe IBL, with Guelph suspending its operations

for the 2011 season and the Twins relocatingto Burlington after two seasons in Mississauga.Entering the 2012 season, the IBL currentlyhas 9 teams (Burlington, Hamilton, Ottawa,Toronto, Brantford, Barrie, Kitchener, Londonand Guelph) with Guelph back after a one yearhiatus. The Hamilton Thunderbirds have alsomade a change for 2012, going back to theirroots and rebranding the team as the HamiltonCardinals.

The Inter County remains Ontario's premiersenior baseball League. Many outstandingformer pro players play in the League, alongwith some of the best graduating juniors fromacross Ontario. Some teams also carry acouple of American imports.

Over the years such familiar names asFerguson Jenkins, Chris Speier, Jesse Orosco,Mike Kilkenny and Mike Gardiner have playedin the IBL. But it isn't just former majorleaguers who have thrilled fans.

Names like Arden Eddie, Bill Byckowski,Wayne Fenlon, Wray Upper, Dave Byers,Tom McKenzie, Larry Ellins, Wilmer Fields,Roman Kniginyzky, Kevin Higgins, BobMcKillop, Dan Collison, Alf Payne, Ron Stead,Doug Landreth, Neal Ambrose, Kurt Felker andRuss Brahms may not mean much to manybaseball fans. But to followers of the IBL, theyall bring back memories from the League'sgreat history.

It's a history that will continue, thanks to thededication of those who run the League's eightteams and continue this great tradition in 2012.

A HISTORY OF THE

INTERCOUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUEBy Roger Lajoie





Over the last 50 years the talent pool for

teams in the Intercounty Baseball League

has changed dramatically.

During the league’s golden years in the 1950s

and 1960s, few Canadian boys were playing

college baseball on either side of the border

and youth baseball associations were just

getting off the ground.

Some clubs advertised for players in the St.

Louis-based Sporting News, considered the

‘Bible of Baseball’ in those days and Intercounty

rosters were well stocked with American imports.

With only one major league game a week

on TV, and that in black and white, the Inter-

county didn’t have to worry about competition.

And it did not have to contend with college

players leaving in the middle of August to

return to school.

Schedules of more than 50 games were

common, with playoffs sometimes extending

until the end of September.

Meanwhile, baseball developed in Burlington

through its affiliation, first with the Halton

County Baseball Association and then the

Central Ontario Baseball Association, as

the city more than tripled its population from

48,000 in 1962 to 175,000 today. Here are

some of the highlights:

June 7,1957: Progressive Conservative

leader John Diefenbaker throws out the

official first pitch to launch the six-team

Burlington Minor Hardball Association with

108 boys participating. Just three days later

Diefenbaker is elected Canada’s 13th Prime

Minister.

BURLINGTON’S PLACE IN

Burlington Cardinals won an Ontario Baseball Association championship 44 years ago in 1968 when the local diamondwas in Central Park. The champs are, front row l. to r., Jack Clark, Dan Wigle, playing manager Bob Salvisburg, EarlWere, Doug Cholewka. Back row, l. to r., are: general manager Tony Hall, Mike Callan, Ludger Doucet, Clayton McKay,George McDonald, Dave Rowe, Ron Szabo, unknown. Some players were missing when the photo was taken.


HISTORYBy Denis Gibbons

“Burlington’s Baseball Historian”


August,1967: Doug Cholewka of the

Burlington Cardinals knocks in the tying run

in the bottom of the ninth and Georgetown’s

Danny Arbic plates the winner as the Halton

County Baseball League All-Stars edge the

Intercounty League-leading Guelph CJOY’s

5-4 in Waterdown. In Canada’s Centennial

year, Linda Neelands of Burlington is named

Miss Halton County Baseball, at the All-Star

Game.

Sept.22,1968: An 11th-inning triple by

playing manager Bob Salvisburg drives in

the winning run as the Burlington Cardinals

edge the Simcoe Giants 4-3 to win the OBA

Intermediate A Major championship. Lefty

George McDonald, a former St. Louis

Cardinal farmhand, fans nine in eight innings

of relief work to get the win and Burlington

takes the best of three series two games

to one.

Oct.3,1971: McDonald, one of three

holdovers from the Burlington’s 1968 Ontario

championship team beats the Sarnia Easy

Movers 9-2 in the deciding game of a best of

three series for the OBA Intermediate A Major

championship. Former Intercounty Baseball

League batting champion John McTavish

and Ross Inglis both homer for the Cardinals.

August,1987: Two Burlington teens,

Jamie Evans and Rob Tanaka, are selected

to play for Canada at the World Junior

(Under-18) Baseball Championship in

Windsor and wind up winning a bronze

medal. Two years later, Evans signs a minor

league contract with the Houston Astros.

Wed.,Aug.3,1988: The Canadian

national team pays its first visit ever to

Burlington, on its way to the Olympic Games

in Seoul Korea, and defeats the all-stars of

the COBA Senior League 9-3 at Nelson Park.

Future major leaguers Rheal Cormier, Paul

Quantrill and Matt Stairs are on the national

team roster.

June 20,1990: Ryan Hilton tosses a

four-hitter and strikes out 12 in a seven-inning

game as Burlington’s M.M. Robinson Rams

trounce the Weston Collegiate Ironmen 9-2

in the championship of the Blue Jays Cup,

the Ontario high school championship at the

SkyDome. Rams become the first high school

outside of Toronto to win the title.

August,1992: Ryan Hunt’s single in

the bottom of the seventh of a seven-inning

game drives in the only run as the Burlington

Bulls peewee team blanks B.C. 1-0 to win the

Canadian championship in Summerside, PEI.

Hunt also pitches a scoreless inning of relief

to pick up the win. It’s the only Canadian

baseball title a Burlington team ever has won.

Sunday,July 16,1995: Aldershot

high school grad Mike Bennett, a product of

Burlington minor baseball, pitches a scoreless

inning in relief for the Canadian national team,

which trounces the COBA Senior League

all-stars 11-1 at Nelson Park. Also on the

national team roster are future major leaguers

Jeff Zimmerman, Eric Gagne and Cody

McKay. Four years later Zimmerman signs

Burlington Bulls peewee team what won the Canadian championship in Summerside PEI in 1992 – the only Canadianchampionship a Burlington team has ever won.



with the Texas Rangers and makes an

appearance in Major League Baseball’s

All-Star Game at Fenway Park in July of

1999. Gagne wins the Cy Young Award as

the National League’s best pitcher with the

Dodgers in 2003.

September,1999: Southpaw Mike

Steed wins both ends of a doubleheader

and the Pereira brothers – Russ and Brian

– hit back-to-back homers in the second

game as the Burlington Brants sweep the

Woodslee Orioles to win the OBA Senior B

championship on Labour Day weekend in

Dundas.

June 11,2002: The underdog Lester

B. Pearson Patriots battle back from a 3-1

deficit to nip Mississauga’s Father Goetz

Gators 4-3 in the Prentice Cup Ontario high

school championship game at the SkyDome.

Jeff Edmondson drives in the winning run

and picks up the save in relief. Just 10 years

earlier, Pearson coach Don Hunt had guided

the Burlington Bulls to the Canadian peewee

championship.

June,12,2008: Tyler Patzalek, who

has won Intercounty League titles with the

Brantford Red Sox the last two years, is an

unusual hero when the Notre Dame

Fighting Irish win the Prentice Cup with the

championship game at Toronto’s SkyDome

against the Pickering Trojans in extra innings,

Patzalek is hit by a pitch with the bases

loaded, forcing in the winning run in a 5-4

Notre Dame victory. Ironically, Patzalek had

come on to pitch in relief and, even though

he faced just one batter, also is credited with

the win.

The Burlington Teen Tour Band Colour Guard stands at attention while members of the Canadian national team areintroduced before the COBA Senior League All-Star Game in July of 1995. Photo by DENIS GIBBONS

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About the Author

A former sports editor of The

Burlington Post, Denis Gibbons

played two seasons (1961, 1962)

with the Guelph Anthonys in the

Intercounty Junior League and

six seasons (1964-69) with the

Georgetown Giants of the Halton

County Baseball League. A native

of Acton, his playing days also go

back to 1959 when minor baseball

teams from Acton regularly faced

Burlington at Pogo Park, which

was located on the current site

of the Senior Citizens Centre on

New Street. A baseball and hockey

historian in his retirement, Denis

lives in Burlington with his

wife Chris.









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1958: The League expands to 3 Bantam and 9 Peewee teams.

1959: The League expands to 14 teams. BOMBAbecomes affiliatedwith the Halton County Baseball Association.

1961: BMHA becomes Burlington Minor Baseball Association(BOMBA) for 525 players.

1963: Mount Royal Plaza Tyke League opens experimentally fornorth area players aged 7-10. The League was designed to teach thebasic fundamentals of baseball in a recreational setting. BOMBA tookover the league the following year.

1969: All age groups except Tyke, were on a "make team" basis inthe house league program due to limited facilities. The first B.I.G.games were held in Burlington, Vermont on July 26th.

1971: Tykes were split into minor and major teams with an inter-locking schedule.

1973: The Minor Tyke teams are introduced to T-Ball.

1975: T-Ball is split into junior and senior divisions. Registration feesare up to $10.00 per player.

1978: Burlington's first annual T-Ball tournament was held atSherwood Forest Park.

1980: BOMBA becomes B.O.M.B.A. and incorporates.

1981: First annual 30 team house league tournament was held atSherwood Forest Park. BOMBA purchased a trailer as a concessionbooth.

1983:Won O.B.A. "AA" Midget championship and Ontario SummerGamesMedalists played in Sudbury. O.B.A. Convention held in Burlington.

1984: Peewees win first O.B.A. "AAA" championships played inHamilton. Young Mens' Division started for men 19 and up. Midgethouse league formed schedule with other cities.

1985: Bantam Br. 69 Legion Rep team wins O.B.A. "AA"championship played in Burlington.

1987: Two Burlington players, Jamie Evans and Rob Tanaka areselected for the Canadian National Youth Team, winning the Bronzemedal in the World Tournament, with each player receiving M.V.P.awards. BOMBA donates fencing at Maple Park to the City and shareswith the Brants the cost of moving the fence at Nelson Park.

1988: The Juvenile Rep Team represents Ontario in the CanadianNational Championships held in Nova Scotia. 110 coaches and 140players attend first Doyle Baseball school clinic offered in Burlington.

1989: First week-long Doyle Baseball camp held in BurlingtonBurlington hosts first 8 year old O.B.A. Provincial Championship.

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As the home for baseball in Burlington, the Burlington Minor Organized Baseball Association was started in 1957 by

members of the Royal Canadian Legion. On June 7, 1957, the six-team league officially opened with the first pitch thrown

by Progressive Conservative Leader, John Diefenbaker. The ten-week schedule ran Friday nights with double-headers

Saturday mornings for the 108 boys who participated. With a rich history of baseball that dates back to the 50’s BOMBA has

had a number of milestones over the years and continues to add to the legacy of minor baseball in Burlington.

Minor Baseball In

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1990: 2000 Players form 130 teams. Rep Midgets win OBAEliminations and represent Ontario in All Canadian play-offs. Rookieball introduced as fall league.

1991: Major Bantam Rep team wins the "AA" OBA Championship.Juvenile rep team wins the "A" OBA Championship. First All Girl'sselect team. Rookie Ball introduced to Tyke and T-Ball as exhibitiongames. Registration 2500 players over 180 teams.

1992:Major Peewee win "AAA" OBAchampionship andCanadian Nationals. Juveniles win OBA Championship.Girl's T-Ball league formed with 6 teams. Rookie Ballleague formed with 24 teams. Registration now 2800 with217 teams.

1993: Major Tyke win "AAA" OBA. Girl's form SeniorT-ball and Rookie ball leagues. Registration reaches3000 with 233 teams. Millcroft Park is built- including2 full size lighted ball diamonds.

1994: Burlington wins the OBA Rookie Ball AAChampionship. Awarded the Midget Eliminations for 1994 thru 1996.Commenced Volunteer Assessment. Formed Girl's Bantam HouseLeague

1995: Burlington Bulls White Rookie Ball team becomes the OBAchampions. Formed Girl's Midget team.

1996: The Burlington White T-Ball team wins the OBAchampionship.

1997: Burlington Blue Major Bantam wins the ICBA Tournament ofChampions. The Minor Pee Wee White Rep team made it to the OBAFinals.

1998: The Burlington Minor Mosquito Rep team wins the OBAChampionship. Major Pee Wee Blue Rep team is awarded OBA silvermedal, second only to the Canadian National champs. Minor Bantamwins the silver OBA medal. Minor Midget Rep team wins the COBAgold medal. BOMBA players Nicolette Franck and Krista McGraw areselected to play for the North American All Stars in the Women'sNational U.S.A. Baseball Championship inArizona. They go undefeated,winning the gold medal.

1999: BOMBA moves to new facilities and adopts an improvedconstitution. At the Nationals in P.E.I. the Pee Wee White Team wins aSilver Medal. At the O.B.A.¹s Mosquito Girls win Gold and Bantam Boyswin Silver. At the Nationals for Girls in Winnipeg, Team Ontario "A" withfour players from Burlington win the Gold and Team Ontario "B" with twoBurlington players win the Bronze.

2000: TheAAAMinor Bantam Bulls win the OBA's. TheAAMInorBantam Bears win their league division and win theSOBA's. Matt McGraw (Mjr Bantam AAA) wasinvited to play for the Riverside National Team andhelped them to win a Silver Medal. Girls BantamAAA went to the Ontario Summer Games andcame home with a Bronze Medal and won theChampionship for the COGBL.

2001: Tier 1 Minor Midget Bulls win the OBA's. Tier1 Major Bantam Bulls win the OBA's for secondstraight year as a team. Tier 1 Bantam Girls win theOBA's.

2002: Major Midget Tier I represents Ontario in theCanadian Nationals held in St. Albert, Alberta. Three girls, Kate Psota,Krystle Hinton & Jennifer McPherson were chosen from B.O.M.B.A. tobe represent Team Ontario at the Western Canada Baseball Champi-onship in Kelowna, British Columbia.

2003: Midget Team wins Michigan USSSAQualifier to the 18UWorldSeries in Kentucky - and they did it with wood bats in the metal battournament! First time a BOMBA team goes to a USSSA world seriesin 4 years. 4 BOMBATeams advance to the Provincial Championships.

2004: BOMBA introduces Blast Ball for junior T-ballers and it is a hit!Enrollment quadruples in this age group. BOMBA introduces ZeroPolicy for Abuse of Umpires. Online web registration for players for thefirst time

2005: BOMBA hosts accredited NCCP Coaches clinics.

2006: BOMBA is granted three year rights to host the Ontario MajorMidget Elimination Tournament. BOMBA Rep teams host a record20 tournaments in Burlington.2 BOMBA Rep teams advance toProvincial Championships.

2007: BOMBA 50th Anniversary. BOMBA hosts 1st Rep ParentInformation Night. BOMBA hosts 2nd consecutive Major MidgetElimination Tournament

2012: BOMBA reached over 1,000 registrations

2012, 2013, 2014: BOMBA will host the provincial JuniorElimination Tournament

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