The Chatham Coloured All-Stars may have only been an amateur baseball team for seven years in the 1930s, but its legacy lives on decades later.
“It was more than a game. It was a passion for the team and it was a passion for the people of colour in the community,” said Blake Harding, whose dad Wilfred “Boomer” Harding played first base for the team.
“It’s given kids in the east end something to shoot for all these years later,” he told The Current‘s Matt Galloway.
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars was formed in 1932 by a group of friends in Chatham, Ont., making
