The earliest recorded history of baseball in Tilston comes from the Reston Recorder (Newspaper), from June 22, 1908. When a neighboring team from Sinclair visited, but were defeated by the hometeam. The game was played on SW-22-5-29.

With the coming of the railroad, the ball diamond was moved to the West side of town. In 1923, Tilston played in a League with Broomhill, Bede and Huston. Tilston was the winner of the league that year. In the 1930’s, until the end of the second World War, no leagues operated.

There was only tournament ball being played on the weekends. Often, the winning team would claim a $25 purse, with second place winning $15 and third place winning $10. The team name Tilston Flax Kings has to go down in Western Canadian history as one of the greatest sports

names. As legend goes, the team name came from a tournament that Tilston had entered. The announcer asked what the team name was and someone shouted, “Flax Kings”, and the name stuck. There was no home run fence on the Flax King’s

Diamond and centre field fell gently into a shallow slough. So if the ball was struck solid, the ball got bouncing on the hard field and would roll quite a distance. The community history book, “Reflections of Time”

lists the 1983 Flax Kings roster as follows; Gary Halls, Larry Sterling, Perry Hendry, Rick Branston, Dennis Tucker, Tony Lampertz, Ken Wray, Bill Halls, Brian Sterling, Brad Minshull, Grant Slessor, John Minshull, Kevin Kirkpatrick and Bob Zarn.

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Ashton Bell, Olympian. Ashton Bell has been named to Team Canada for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games! Congratulations, Captain. #GoDogs

20 years ago Birdy and I coached a girls hockey team in Pierson that these two young ladies played on. This weekend my daughter Charly played in U18 Provincial tournament in Pierson and look who was giving back, volunteering in the canteen. #PiersonProud

This should be mandatory viewing for all parents in youth sports!!!

Mark Allan Olson I wrote this blog about A&W over 7 years ago and it is still the most popular blog by far. saifood.ca/ambiguous-wron…

Today Parliament celebrated the life of Brian Franklin. He was a friend and I know all who knew him are grieving with his passing. My heart goes out to his wife Val and his children Tony & Carrie during this very difficult time. May he rest in peace. -LM

Greatest Canadian ever. Greatest athlete the world has ever seen. Ran a marathon a day for 143 days on one leg. He has raised billions for cancer research since his death at 23 years old. RIP. You are the greatest Canadian

Parents: If there’s ONE video you watch on social media today. Please let it be this one: Frank Martin discusses parents attempting to coach their kids from the sidelines.

🤘KELLY ARTZ

I cherish my memories of that year….and my National Championship Ring 🤘Once a Bison…always a Bison!