West Central Online would like to congratulate the Leader Barons Senior Baseball Team 1961-1983, for being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, into the team category, on Saturday, August 20, 2016, at Battleford, Saskatchewan.

It was in 1960 when this team was in need of equipment and uniforms, so found a sponsor by the name of Bill Baron, and thus became known as the Leader Barons baseball team. When Bill Baron moved away, sponsorship was taken over by Stephen and Ella Baron, thereby keeping the Baron’s name intact. The organization kept complete statistics from 1961 to 1983, except for 1981 when the stats were recorded for only half the year. Synoptic journals included batting, fielding, pitching stats, individual season records, team season records, lifetime individual records and year by year summaries. A spreadsheet summary of games played, games won, games lost, games tied, runs for, runs against, leagues played in, league champions, league finals losses and league semi-final losses.

These are the highlights:

Winning percentage-72%; Runs for per game- 8.38: Runs against per game—4.90: Run differential per game—3.48

These are the 20 year league playoff stats
Champions—11 [55%]: Lost in finals—5 {25%]
Lost in semi-finals—4 [20%]: Years in playoffs—20-[100%]

There are four players from the Leader Barons team that have already been inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame. They are Allan Marshall, Ed Fauth, Paul Nagel and Dean Mathison.
Greg Goldade, who played with the Barons for six years before moving to Eston, and Allan Marshall from Leader were inducted as members of the 1969 Eston Ramblers who were the Saskatchewan representatives at the Canada Games.

The Barons also won the prestigious Medicine Hat, Alberta baseball tournament five times: 1966, 1973, 1975, 1978 and 1979.

In Provincial Playoffs
-Lost to the Assiniboia Aces in the southern finals in 1966.
-Lost to Maple Creek Mohawks in the first round in 1967.
-Lost in the finals in Kenosee Lake in 1976 in a tournament format.

In 1967 the Barons won a team record of $1505.00 in Prize money in Sports Days and tournaments throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta. The team also had a 20 game winning streak. They entered the Two Hills, Alberta tournament and defeated the Edmonton Blue Willows 14 to 8. Pitcher Ken Ewasiuk of the Blue Willows team played on the Canadian team at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba.