Thirteen years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in the MLB, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first baseball team with Black players to compete in a championship in Ontario.
The team played the Penetang Shipbuilders in the Provincial Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship in 1934 in its second year in the league.
The All-Stars won the game, in a historic victory that reverberated far off the field as well.
The All-Stars’ legacy is being commemorated Saturday with a charity baseball game in Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario at Fergie Jenkins Field, named after the Chatham-born all-star MLB pitcher who retired in 1983, and became the first Canadian inducted into the Baseball
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