Month: <span>July 2020</span>

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Leakos shared in baseball’s glory days on the Prairies

Emile Francis once shared the thought that during the years from 1948 into the 1960s, “it was the best baseball they ever had on the Canadian Prairies. Major league scouts often told us we were playing the equivalent of what was Double-A in the United States.” Francis knew. He played and managed the North Battleford...