1978 Western Canada Baseball champions - The 1878 Melville Bantam Western Canada Baseball Champions were, front row from left to right, Steve Matechuk, Aaron White, Alvin Matechuk (batboy), Kevin Karius (batboy), Matt Stelmak, Greg Schmidt, Stu Petlak. Back row from left to right are, Francis Matechuk, Darren Kowaluk, Dean Blezard, Deric Karolat, Trevor Chandler, Mike Wihak, Ken Karius, Murray Edwards, Brent Rathgeber and Ward Edwards. (Submitted/Grasslands News)

In 1978 a baseball team from Melville won the Western Canadian Baseball Championship with six players they picked up from three Saskatchewan towns, without playing a single game together before. That team, the 1978 Melville Bantam A Millionaires, are to be inducted in the Sask Baseball Hall of Fame this August for their accomplishments of […]

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