1955 Snapshots     
Lloydminster baseball

Above - Chuck McGuigan, Tom Feldstein, Don Stewart, Scotty McNeill (?)  

Below - Lloydminster Meridans, Bob Bayless, Dick Barry, Bill Duft, Kirby Wyllie

(Photos courtesy Chuck McGuigan)

Four Amigos

Above - Bob Bayless, Dick Barry, Bill Duft, Kirby Wyllie 

Below - Lloydminster shortstop Jim Valentine slides into third base ahead of the throw to Jim Harney(Edmonton Journal, August 23, 1955)   

Jimmy Valentine slides

Below - "Stan Kulka's prodigious 450-foot clout into the bleachers in right centre ... teammate Jim Johnson is congratulating Kulka ... while Meridian catcher Dick Barry looks ruefully on."  (Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1955)

Stan Kulka homer

Below - Lloydminster Meridians' hurlers, Tom Feldstein, Oscar Tesch, Bill Bailey, Barney Brown, Ray Looney 

Lloydminster pitchers

Below - Chuck McGuigan displaying hitting form in the away uniform. (Photos courtesy of Chuck McGuigan)

Chuck McGuigan

The season opener, June 10th, at Renfrew Park at Edmonton.  The pre-game conference with with Edmonto manager Roy Carlson, umpires Jim Kelly and John Lupul, and Lloydminster's Don Stewart and Ted Mitchell.

 

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