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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 our second season, we have continued to develop our relationships with the City of Burlington, Burlington Organized Minor Baseball Association (BOMBA), the Burlington Brants and the Burlington Vintage Baseball League in an effort to help support baseball in the City of Burlington, from the grass roots up! We share a passion for the game with these groups and will continue to work on bringing a Championship home to Burlington. We love Burlington and we truly hope baseball fans and residents will embrace our Burlington Twins, your “HOMETOWN BASEBALL” team. As we embark on another new season of TWINS baseball, we are encouraged by a strong playoff performance last season versus the Toronto Maples Leafs and look to make our mark in the Intercounty League. From day one, it has been our mandate to provide affordable, family entertainment and to give back and develop minor baseball in Burlington. We are proud to provide local players a home team opportunity. To our many volunteers, to our family of corporate partners and to our new baseball fans, we thank you. LETS PLAY BALL!!

A Message From

The Coach

Welcome back for year two here in Burlington. It was a great season last year in so many ways and this season we hope to make it even better. As an organization, we are primed to turn the corner and become an elite team in the IBL this season. We have a strong returning core of players such as returning IBL all-stars Branson Joseph and Kyle Bolton and with the addition of some new and exciting players we feel as if we have 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 of the best college players and former professional players in Ontario. The coaching staff of Jamie Trull, John D’Angelo , Marc Lepage and I are committed to putting an exciting team on the field that is dedicated to bringing a winner home to the great City of Burlington. Our effort, determination, resilience and love of the game will take us to the next level! I look forward to seeing you at the park.

Jeff Lounsbury

Field Manager Burlington Twins Baseball Club

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Executive Team

J. Elliott Kerr President

Scott Robinson Vice President

Doug Kelcher

Scott Rogers

General Manager

Assistant General Manager

Marketing Managers – Paul Yager and Ben McCarty

Manager, Game Day Operations – Stefan Ottenbrite Media Relations - Jim Beamish

Game Day Operations – Krystal Duz, Ryan Harrison, Peter Clark, Tim Correia

Advisory Committee

Peter Bridger

Don Moore

Anthony Stadelman

Dan Pino

Jason Stoner

Absent from photos – Art Wilson, Ron Lambert Team Photographer – Glen Thiessen

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“Intercounty Baseball Tidbits” If you see a pony tail peeking out behind an umpire’s cap on an Intercounty diamond, you’re not seeing things. Burlington’s Lisa Turbitt has umpired in the league for the last seven years, setting the pace for future female arbiters. Lisa, who works full-time as a teacher at Chris Hadfield School in Milton, received the Dick 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 achievements in Ontario baseball history. Pitching for the Campbellville Merchants, Roberts threw back-to-back no hitters against the Corunna Giants to lead Campbellville to 1-0 and 7-0 wins and the OBA Intermediate C championship in September of 1966. Only one major leaguer – Johnny Van der Meer of the 1938 Cincinnati Reds – has done the same, when he beat the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers in consecutive 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 pass in either game!

Charles R. Beaudoin elementary school in Burlington is named after the late ‘Chuck’ Beaudoin, a member of the Hamilton Cardinals Intercounty Baseball League championship team in 1978 – the only title Hamilton has ever won. Chuck taught in the Halton public school system for more than 25 years and endeared 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 the London Majors 9-7 to clinch the sixth and final playoff spot. Police were called and right in the middle of the melee, helping to sort things out, was New York Rangers defenseman Lou Fontinato, a native of Guelph who had made the trip to London to watch the game. London’s Stan Gabby Anderson had knocked down two Guelph players before being contained. It was no coincidence that Fontinato had led the NHL in penalty minutes in the 1957-58 season with 152! Playing for Hamilton, Burlington’s John McTavish won the Intercounty batting championship in 1968 with a mark of .420. Then in 2007 Burlington produced another batting champ in Joe Colameco of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who hit .416. In 1960 Jack Price of Burlington finished second with a mark of .383 for Hamilton. Colameco also played centre field and hit a lofty .375 for Canada at the Baseball World Cup in 1998.

In September of 1945, the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League made an exhibition tour after the season and narrowly defeated the Intercounty champion London Majors 4-2 in a game at Labatt Park in London. The Burlington Twins are not the first Intercounty Baseball League team to play in the Region of Halton. In 1958, the Oakville Oaks joined the league for one season and, surprisingly, won the regular season pennant with a record of 23-9 for a fabulous winning percentage of .719. However, the Oaks lost in the first round of the playoffs and did not return for the 1959 season. Two of Oakville’s best sluggers – Bob Salvisburg and Jack Price – were from Burlington.

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A HISTORY OF THE

INTERCOUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUE By Roger Lajoie The Intercounty Baseball League has been a part of summer in Southern Ontario for 93 years now. The League began in 1919 with just four teams...Galt, Guelph, Stratford and Kitchener. Despite a rocky start the Inter County managed to survive its first season. The rest, as they say is history. It's a long and rich history too. In the early years the League expanded with London, Brantford, Preston and St. Thomas joining at various times. By the mid 1930s, the Inter County had established a reputation as one of Ontario's best amateur leagues. In fact when Stratford won the Ontario Baseball Association title in 1934, it was the League's fifth OBA title in a row. The League survived the Second World War in good shape, even though many players joined the armed forces. After the war, the League became professional in everything but name. The Inter County was considered by the professional ranks as an "outlaw" league at that time. The bidding war for players was fierce, and many ex major league players came to Ontario looking for a few last baseball bucks. So many came, in fact, that the League was considered on a par with many minor pro leagues. Great crowds came out to see the games, which were played under floodlights for the first time in the 1950s, and the senior league appointed its first commissioner, John Gillies, a London lawyer and former pitcher in the League. The late 1950s and early 1960s were a tough

time for the League. Teams came in and dropped out, and in 1962 and 1963 only five teams were entered; the lowest ever. But things got better in the 1960â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, starting in 1964. It was that year when Stratford rejoined the League as the city went on to become one of the league's premiere franchises. In 1969 the Inter County welcomed Toronto to the league for the first time on the heels of the folding of the International League's Toronto Maple Leafs. Despite the competition from major league baseball coming to Canada, the Inter County continued on. There were never fewer than eight teams in the League over the next two decades, and with Waterloo's return in 1978, the League was comprised of the same teams as in 1950. The growth hit a high point of 11 teams in 1979 when the Windsor Chiefs joined. It took a lot of dedicated people to run the League in this time period. Two of them, long time commissioner Reuben Halpern, who was in office from 1970 until 1986, and secretary Lorne Hamel were honoured by having the league's two divisions named after them in 1982. Hamel was the secretary from 1962 to 1997. The League was down to six teams in 1998 however St. Thomas rejoined for the 2000 season followed by two expansion teams, the Barrie Baycats in 2001 and the Oshawa Dodgers in 2002, which brought the number of teams back up to nine. St. Thomas moved to Stratford in 2004 and the team was then relocated and currently operates in Burlington. In 2010, the Ottawa Fatcats joined the Intercounty League, bringing baseball back to Ottawa. 2011 brought about two changes in the IBL, with Guelph suspending its operations

for the 2011 season and the Twins relocating to Burlington after two seasons in Mississauga. Entering the 2012 season, the IBL currently has 9 teams (Burlington, Hamilton, Ottawa, Toronto, Brantford, Barrie, Kitchener, London and Guelph) with Guelph back after a one year hiatus. The Hamilton Thunderbirds have also made a change for 2012, going back to their roots and rebranding the team as the Hamilton Cardinals. The Inter County remains Ontario's premier senior baseball League. Many outstanding former pro players play in the League, along with some of the best graduating juniors from across Ontario. Some teams also carry a couple of American imports. Over the years such familiar names as Ferguson Jenkins, Chris Speier, Jesse Orosco, Mike Kilkenny and Mike Gardiner have played in the IBL. But it isn't just former major leaguers 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, Bob McKillop, Dan Collison, Alf Payne, Ron Stead, Doug Landreth, Neal Ambrose, Kurt Felker and Russ Brahms may not mean much to many baseball fans. But to followers of the IBL, they all bring back memories from the League's great history. It's a history that will continue, thanks to the dedication of those who run the League's eight teams and continue this great tradition in 2012.

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BURLINGTON’S PLACE IN

HISTORY By Denis Gibbons “Burlington’s Baseball Historian”

Over the last 50 years the talent pool for

Meanwhile, baseball developed in Burlington

June 7, 1957: Progressive Conservative

has changed dramatically.

County Baseball Association and then the

official first pitch to launch the six-team

teams in the Intercounty Baseball League 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

through its affiliation, first with the Halton 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:

leader John Diefenbaker throws out the

Burlington Minor Hardball Association with

108 boys participating. Just three days later Diefenbaker is elected Canada’s 13th Prime Minister.

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.

Burlington Cardinals won an Ontario Baseball Association championship 44 years ago in 1968 when the local diamond was in Central Park. The champs are, front row l. to r., Jack Clark, Dan Wigle, playing manager Bob Salvisburg, Earl Were, 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.

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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

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

George McDonald, a former St. Louis

Burlington, on its way to the Olympic Games

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

of relief work to get the win and Burlington

the COBA Senior League 9-3 at Nelson Park.

Hunt also pitches a scoreless inning of relief

Intermediate A Major championship. Lefty

Cardinal farmhand, fans nine in eight innings takes the best of three series two games to one.

Oct. 3, 1971: McDonald, one of three

holdovers from the Burlington’s 1968 Ontario

in Seoul Korea, and defeats the all-stars of

Future major leaguers Rheal Cormier, Paul

Quantrill and Matt Stairs are on the national team roster.

June 20, 1990: Ryan Hilton tosses a

Canadian championship in Summerside, PEI. 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

championship team beats the Sarnia Easy

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

Burlington minor baseball, pitches a scoreless

three series for the OBA Intermediate A Major

trounce the Weston Collegiate Ironmen 9-2

which trounces the COBA Senior League

Movers 9-2 in the deciding game of a best of championship. Former Intercounty Baseball League batting champion John McTavish

and Ross Inglis both homer for the Cardinals. August, 1987: Two Burlington teens,

game as Burlington’s M.M. Robinson Rams 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.

Jamie Evans and Rob Tanaka, are selected

August, 1992: Ryan Hunt’s single in

(Under-18) Baseball Championship in

game drives in the only run as the Burlington

to play for Canada at the World Junior

Windsor and wind up winning a bronze

inning in relief for the Canadian national team, 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

the bottom of the seventh of a seven-inning

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

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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

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

with the Texas Rangers and makes an

June, 12, 2008: Tyler Patzalek, who

All-Star Game at Fenway Park in July of

Brantford Red Sox the last two years, is an

appearance in Major League Baseball’s

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.

has won Intercounty League titles with the 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.

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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Minor Baseball In

BURLINGTON 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 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BOMBA has

had a number of milestones over the years and continues to add to the legacy of minor baseball in Burlington. 1958: The League expands to 3 Bantam and 9 Peewee teams. 1959: The League expands to 14 teams. BOMBA becomes affiliated with the Halton County Baseball Association. 1961: BMHA becomes Burlington Minor Baseball Association (BOMBA) for 525 players. 1963: Mount Royal Plaza Tyke League opens experimentally for north area players aged 7-10. The League was designed to teach the basic fundamentals of baseball in a recreational setting. BOMBA took over the league the following year. 1969: All age groups except Tyke, were on a "make team" basis in the 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 interlocking schedule. 1973: The Minor Tyke teams are introduced to T-Ball. 1975: T-Ball is split into junior and senior divisions. Registration fees are up to $10.00 per player. 1978: Burlington's first annual T-Ball tournament was held at Sherwood Forest Park. 1980: BOMBA becomes B.O.M.B.A. and incorporates. 22

1981: First annual 30 team house league tournament was held at Sherwood Forest Park. BOMBA purchased a trailer as a concession booth. 1983: Won O.B.A. "AA" Midget championship and Ontario Summer Games Medalists played in Sudbury. O.B.A. Convention held in Burlington. 1984: Peewees win first O.B.A. "AAA" championships played in Hamilton. Young Mens' Division started for men 19 and up. Midget house 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 are selected for the Canadian National Youth Team, winning the Bronze medal in the World Tournament, with each player receiving M.V.P. awards. BOMBA donates fencing at Maple Park to the City and shares with the Brants the cost of moving the fence at Nelson Park. 1988: The Juvenile Rep Team represents Ontario in the Canadian National Championships held in Nova Scotia. 110 coaches and 140 players attend first Doyle Baseball school clinic offered in Burlington. 1989: First week-long Doyle Baseball camp held in Burlington Burlington hosts first 8 year old O.B.A. Provincial Championship. (contâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d on page 24) BURLINGTON TWINS BASEBALL CLUB

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Minor Baseball in BURLINGTON 1990: 2000 Players form 130 teams. Rep Midgets win OBA Eliminations and represent Ontario in All Canadian play-offs. Rookie ball 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's select team. Rookie Ball introduced to Tyke and T-Ball as exhibition games. Registration 2500 players over 180 teams. 1992: Major Peewee win "AAA" OBA championship and Canadian Nationals. Juveniles win OBA Championship. Girl's T-Ball league formed with 6 teams. Rookie Ball league formed with 24 teams. Registration now 2800 with 217 teams. 1993: Major Tyke win "AAA" OBA. Girl's form Senior T-ball and Rookie ball leagues. Registration reaches 3000 with 233 teams. Millcroft Park is built- including 2 full size lighted ball diamonds. 1994: Burlington wins the OBA Rookie Ball AA Championship. Awarded the Midget Eliminations for 1994 thru 1996. Commenced Volunteer Assessment. Formed Girl's Bantam House League 1995: Burlington Bulls White Rookie Ball team becomes the OBA champions. Formed Girl's Midget team. 1996: The Burlington White T-Ball team wins the OBA championship. 1997: Burlington Blue Major Bantam wins the ICBA Tournament of Champions. The Minor Pee Wee White Rep team made it to the OBA Finals. 1998: The Burlington Minor Mosquito Rep team wins the OBA Championship. Major Pee Wee Blue Rep team is awarded OBA silver medal, second only to the Canadian National champs. Minor Bantam wins the silver OBA medal. Minor Midget Rep team wins the COBA gold medal. BOMBA players Nicolette Franck and Krista McGraw are selected to play for the North American All Stars in the Women's National U.S.A. Baseball Championship in Arizona. They go undefeated, winning the gold medal.

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1999: BOMBA moves to new facilities and adopts an improved constitution. At the Nationals in P.E.I. the Pee Wee White Team wins a Silver Medal. At the O.B.A.Âšs Mosquito Girls win Gold and Bantam Boys win Silver. At the Nationals for Girls in Winnipeg, Team Ontario "A" with four players from Burlington win the Gold and Team Ontario "B" with two Burlington players win the Bronze. 2000: The AAA Minor Bantam Bulls win the OBA's. The AA MInor Bantam Bears win their league division and win the SOBA's. Matt McGraw (Mjr Bantam AAA) was invited to play for the Riverside National Team and helped them to win a Silver Medal. Girls Bantam AAA went to the Ontario Summer Games and came home with a Bronze Medal and won the Championship for the COGBL. 2001: Tier 1 Minor Midget Bulls win the OBA's. Tier 1 Major Bantam Bulls win the OBA's for second straight year as a team. Tier 1 Bantam Girls win the OBA's. 2002: Major Midget Tier I represents Ontario in the Canadian Nationals held in St. Albert, Alberta. Three girls, Kate Psota, Krystle Hinton & Jennifer McPherson were chosen from B.O.M.B.A. to be represent Team Ontario at the Western Canada Baseball Championship in Kelowna, British Columbia. 2003: Midget Team wins Michigan USSSA Qualifier to the 18U World Series in Kentucky - and they did it with wood bats in the metal bat tournament! First time a BOMBA team goes to a USSSA world series in 4 years. 4 BOMBA Teams 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 Zero Policy for Abuse of Umpires. Online web registration for players for the first time 2005: BOMBA hosts accredited NCCP Coaches clinics. 2006: BOMBA is granted three year rights to host the Ontario Major Midget Elimination Tournament. BOMBA Rep teams host a record 20 tournaments in Burlington.2 BOMBA Rep teams advance to Provincial Championships. 2007: BOMBA 50th Anniversary. BOMBA hosts 1st Rep Parent Information Night. BOMBA hosts 2nd consecutive Major Midget Elimination Tournament 2012: BOMBA reached over 1,000 registrations 2012, 2013, 2014: BOMBA will host the provincial Junior Elimination Tournament Congratulations to all the coaches, players and staff involved with B.O.M.B.A, all the best for a great 2012 season!!

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