The league honoured its top 100 players at a banquet in 2018 and the majority of the players receiving gold bats worked during the day and played in the IBL at night or on the weekend. People like Arden Eddie, Bill Byckowski, Tom McKenzie, Denis Flanagan, Bob McKillop, Dan Collison, Alf Payne, Ron Stead, Doug Landreth and Russ Brahms. It’s these players, and players like them, that are the real heart and soul of the IBL.
Majors that are members of the Gold Bat Club
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OF Arden Eddie | SS Dave Byers | RHP Jon Owen | C Wayne Fenlon |
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INF Barry Boughner | OF Richard Thompson | DH Cleveland Brownlee | RHP Brian Murphy |
21 London Alumni on the IBL's Top 100 Players-of-All-Time List (in alphabetical order):
Stan 'Gabby' Anderson: OF-MGR, 1948 (Jr. Call-Up for 7 games), '56 '58-'66
Barry Boughner: INF, '66-'76, '80, '84
Joe Bechard: OF, '48-'54
Cleveland Brownlee: OF, 1B, '10-'19
Dave Byers: SS, '69-'87 (London-Galt-Waterloo-London)
Arden Eddie: OF, INF, MGR, '67-'03
Russ Evon: OF, INF, MGR, '44-'66 (London-St. Thomas)
John Faragher: P, OF, '82-'98 (Stratford-London)
Wayne (Dog) Fenlon: C, MGR, '66-'89
Matt Gooding: OF, INF, '76-'01 (St. Thomas-London)
Larry Haggitt: 1B, 3B, '74-'84 (London-Stratford)
Tom McKenzie: INF, '60-'80 (London-Kitchener)
George (Irish) Miskimmons: C, 1951 in London (Stratford-London)
Brian Murphy: RHP, '67-'72
Jon Owen: P, '77-'99
Rolf Scheel: P, '64-'69 (London-Stratford)
Phil Schmidt: P, '74-'82
Ron Stead: P, '55-'72 (London-Brantford-Guelph)
Fred Thomas: OF, '50-'55 (Waterloo-Kitchener-Guelph-London)
Richard Thompson: OF, '88-'98
Tommy White: P-MGR, '43-'59 (London-St. Thomas)