Regina's most famous pro baseball player will be featured in the Heritage Minutes film series about important figures in Canadian history.
Her profile in the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame describes Baker as the league’s most publicized player, often referred to as “Pretty Bonnie Baker.”
After retiring from pro baseball, she was touted in 1964 as Canada’s first female sportscaster, working for CKRM radio in Regina. Baker was later welcomed into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame as well as the national baseball hall of fame, accompanying 67 other Canadian inductees who played in the U.S. pro league. She’s also part of an AAGPBL exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
and funded in part by the Department of Canadian Heritage. Historica Canada is a charitable organization that offers programs in both official languages, helping people “explore, learn and reflect on our history, and consider what it means to be Canadian.” “Saskatchewan has a long and impressive history of producing some of Canada’s best athletes in a variety of sports,” Historica Canada president/CEO Anthony Wilson-Smith said in a prepared statement. “We’re delighted to be working with our partners at Danny Rockett Productions and Barbershop Films to tell the story of one of them – and to be doing it in a location with such a rich history of its own.
Filming was scheduled to begin Thursday and continue Friday in Ogema, a small town in south-central Saskatchewan that was home to
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