Sudburians have some fond (and sharp) memories of the glory days of Nickel City baseball. Our history writer, Jason Marcon, shares some of the best
We’re back ladies and gentlemen for game two of our local baseball memories doubleheader. Before we run too late , let’s jump right into some of the memories that have been pitched my way.
As Ken Roberts also wrote, “I have many fond memories of the baseball games at Queen’s, in the fifties … my friends and I would wait outside the park, and when a baseball came over the fence, we would run to get it was our ticket to get into the ball game for free.” Of course, we have to remember those were also the days prior to the rampant commercialization of the sport, which led to a proliferation of merchandise that today’s spectators would be wearing if they were attending a Sudbury ball game. In fact, this writer is wearing Toronto Blue Jays hat, shirt and shorts as these words are being written.
Reader Steven Vallarsa remembers that “the main baseball field … bleachers girders made for a wonderful jungle gym for pre-teen boy.” It was a place that he would go almost daily “to play under the stands of the main baseball field.” There was also a two-story announcer box with “a great speaker system 40+ years later can still hear the echoes of the announcers' calls from where grew up on Mae Street.
Returning to Flynn’s 1925 Copper Cliff team, Kelly Stutt wrote in that her “Grandfather Leo McLaughlin raised in Detroit, Michigan, played pro ball there” before being “recruited along with his brother to come and work at the mines and play ball. That's how big baseball was back in the day.” The hard-throwing hurler would strike out seven of nine batters he faced at the tryout. However, feeling that he hadn’t impressed anyone, Marchildon immediately returned to his job at Creighton Mine.
Upon returning from the war, Marchildon would register 19 wins in 1947 – a season many consider to be one of the best ever by a Canadian pitcher. He was elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1976, and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. Branch Rickey, a Major League Baseball executive, ended up in our fair city in July, 1961, for an incident completely unrelated to the game of baseball.
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