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27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] All the signs pointed to Jack Beauchamp's career as a professional baseball pitcher— literally. For it was on a vacation trip, staring out the car window at the Florida scenery, he noticed a sign...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Perhaps the greatest male high school athlete Midland produced. Doug Kettle was also its most versatile. He played nearly every sport available - especially track and field. football, softball and basketball. With Kettle...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] A member of the famous Conacher sporting family, Roy Conacher was the most natural hockey player among the three Conacher brothers who played in the National Hockey League. A left winger. he was...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 'Sib Could Stick Handle in a Wash Basin.' [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Sib Brodeur is remembered as a gentle man in a rough sport. He played in the Ontario Hockey Association from the 1920's through to the 1950's....

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Midland's Best Baseball Pitcher [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Often called the best pitcher in the history of baseball in Midland, for 12 years, from 1958 to 1969. Gord Dyment was the big righthander who drove the Midland Indians...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] In a Rare Company of Hockey Players [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] A rare company of hockey players will ever reach the target of playing in the National Hockey League. Fewer still have arrived there from Midland. One of...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Canadian Powerboat Racing Champion [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Tim Toole always knew he wanted to race something. He loved to go fast. When he discovered powerboat racing, he was hooked. Tim was working as a marine mechanic in...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gold, Silver and Bronze for this Special Champion [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Special Olympics athletes begin their games knowing they have the ability to do their best to excel in their sport. Brenda Henry of Midland epitomized this essence...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Canadian Novice Dance competition [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The youngest inductee into the Midland Sports Hall of Fame is Brenda Key who won the Canadian Figure Skating Association national novice dance championship in 1997. Brenda was born in...

27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Chester Graham has excelled in so many sports that a case might be made to call him Midland's Best Athlete. Here are just a few of his career highlights: He has won the Midland...