Year Inducted: 1986
Birth Date: December 12, 1911
Home Town: Oshawa
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Born in Oshawa 13 days before Christmas in 1911, Earl (Peg) Hurst advanced through the minor ranks in Oshawa and was on the Oshawa General Motors team which won the Central Ontario Baseball League Championship in 1936. He was also a "triple threat" as president-manager-player with the Oshawa team which captured the Inter-City Baseball League title in 1940. That season, "Peg" became the first winner of the Tony Lazzeri Trophy as the leagues most valuable player. Lazzeri, a graduate of the great New York Yankees organization, was manager of the International Leagues Toronto Maple Leafs at that time. Hurst was also on a pair of provincial championship teams in the sport of softball as a member of the Mikes Place juniors in 1931 and the Oshawa Colts in 1943. "Peg" became an Ontario Hockey Association referee and officiated two games at the 1949 Memorial Cup junior (Canadian) championships.
Year Inducted: 2014
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Ed Aru:
Born and raised in Oshawa, Ed is a graduate of Ritson Road Public School and Donevan Collegiate. He started his career with the city's first junior football team, the Oshawa Imps, in 1959. He played when the Imps became the Oshawa Hawkeyes in the 1960's, moved into the coaching ranks in the 1970's before taking over as president, while also holding other team executive positions into the 1990's. In addition to junior football, Ed was instrumental in overviewing the development of a house league program and rep teams at the tyke, atom, peewee, bantam and midget levels.Ed Aru's name has been synonymous with football in Oshawa for a half-century.
Year Inducted: 1986
More about Eddie Westfall:
Eddie was the first player to graduate from the Oshawa Minor Hockey system who went on to play for a Stanley Cup winning team. He was an integral part of the Boston Bruins' National Hockey League championship teams in 1969-70 and 1971-72, and played 1,227 regular season games over an 18-year NHL career. Westfall scored 231 goals and drew 394 assists in those games, and also played in 95 play-off games, scoring 22 goals and 37 assists. Noted for his fine leadership qualities, Westfall was named captain of the expansion New York Islanders after being selected in the 1972 expansion draft. He scored the Islanders first NHL goal and captained the New York club for four and one-half seasons. When he retired following the 1978-79 season to accept a public relations position with the Islanders, the club retired his number 18.
Year Inducted: 1996
More about Edward (Ted) Stone:
Stoney began his pitching career with the Oshawa Legion, Branch 43, Baseball Association in 1946. In 1953, while playing for the Oshawa Merchants of the Inter County League, Ted was scouted by the Boston Red Sox. He signed a contract and became the first Oshawa native to play professional baseball.
He played for the Corning, New York, Red Sox Team in 1954, where his pitching record was 15-2. Ted moved up the ladder to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1955, posting a 13-8 win/loss record. In 1956, again returning to Greensboro, he achieved a 13-9 record. Ted moved to Albany, New York in 1957, where he pitched mainly in relief. Having obtained his release from Boston in 1958, Ted returned to Oshawa to play semi-pro ball with the Merchants.
Ted began coaching baseball in Oshawa during the 1960's and is still actively involved in that capacity, as well as being a consultant for the Oshawa Minor Baseball Association.
Year Inducted: 1987
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Edward Patrick (Ted) O'Connor:
Edward Patrick (Ted) O'Connor, born in Oshawa in 1930, was a multi-talented athlete who starred for Oshawa in hockey, baseball, lacrosse and fastball.
Ted played for the Oshawa Generals from 1947 to 1951 and coached and managed the team in 1966-67. The highlight of his hockey career was playing defence for the Whitby Dunlops, who won the Allen Cup National Championship in 1957 and 1959, and the World Championship in 1958 at Oslo, Norway. He was a teammate of Hall of Famers Wren Blair, Bobby Attersley and Harry Sinden.
In baseball Ted won three batting championships in three separate leagues in Ontario.
In 1967, he became the first chief scout of the Minnesota North Stars of the N.H.L. and later became head scout of the Los Angeles Kings. At the time of his induction, Ted had served for eight years as head scout with the Kings.
Year Inducted: 1986
More about Effie Madeline Hezzelwood:
Hailed as the grand dame of Southern Ontario ladies curling, Effie Hezzelwood competed on Tankard-winning (Ontario championship) rinks in 1959 and 1960, contributed to Ontario Senior championship quartets in 1967 and 1971, and was part of the Diamond Senior Competition winning foursome in 1983. An active member of both the Oshawa Golf Club and Oshawa Curling Club, Effie served as the latter outfits president, and was chairman of the Ladies Committee for the Macdonalds Brier Tankard in Oshawa in 1969. In 1983, she was the recipient of the Labatt Award for her contribution to curling, and in 1986 was presented with the Canadian Ladies Curling Association Award for dedicated and outstanding service. No stranger to other sports, Effie finished second with an 839 triple in the ladies singles event at the Canadian Five-Pin Bowling Association Championships in 1945, and also helped a Motor City Bowl team from Oshawa finish second in the team event.
Year Inducted: 2016
Birth Date: August 07, 1961
Home Town: Russia
More about Elena Davydova:
Elena Davydova was born August 7, 1961 in Russia. She is the World Champion and the two time Olympic Champion in artistic gymnastics. While representing the Soviet Union, she scored a perfect 10 on floor and vault edging out Nadia Comaneci at the 1980 Olympics for all around title. Elena is also an International Brevet Judge and is a PHD in sports science. In May 2007, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. However, it is for her work as a coach and builder that has earned her recognition in Oshawa, where she has called home since 1991.As a Gemini coach for the past 25 years, and the head coach since 1999, she has amassed an astounding list of achievements and guided numerous athletes into elite level competitions and toward exciting post-secondary school opportunities. Under Elena's leadership, Gemini has produced 22 All-round Canadian Champions, 10 AA Elite Canada Champions, 21 Eastern Canadian AA Champions, and 113 AA Provincial Champions.Elena is recognized as one of the most successful Canadian coaches, placing athletes on the Canadian Team for major games and Championships since 1995. Gymnastics Canada and Gymnastics Ontario named Elena the high performance coach of the year in 1997, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2013. In addition to the 2012 Olympics, leading the team to an historical 5th place, Elena coached the Canadian team at six World Championships, the Commonwealth Games, and Pan American Games, International Gymnastics Federation has invited her as an Expert for several International Academy coaching courses.As an International Category 1 Brevet Judge (highest international judging category) Elena has officiated at international competitions on four continents, including World Cups, major Games and World Championships. In 2005, she achieved the highest score of all Canadian Brevet judges on the international exam and in 2007 became the only Canadian to hold both Brevet coach and judge status for women's artistic gymnastics. Elena has been invited by the International Gymnastics Federation as the only Canadian representative to judge Women artistic gymnastics at the 2016 Rio Olympics.Gemini Gymnastics has become an internationally renowned club under Elena's leadership and has been recognized by Gymnastics Canada with its Club of Excellence award each year since its inception in 2003.
Year Inducted: 2016
Birth Date: February 28, 1973
Home Town: London
More about Eric Lindros:
Eric Lindros was one of the most dominant players to ever wear an Oshawa Generals jersey. Born February 28, 1973 in London, Ontario Eric came to Oshawa in 1990, at the age of 16. Physically well beyond most players his age, he proved to be an invaluable piece for a Generals team that went on to win its first Memorial Cup national title since 1944. He racked up 18 goals and 36 points in 17 playoff games and was named a Memorial Cup all-star.Lindros spent parts of three seasons with the Generals amassing 180 goals, 200 assists, 380 points and 437 penalty minutes in just 157 games. In 1991, although the Generals were upset in a spirited OHL final by the Greyhounds, Eric was named the junior player of the year for both Ontario and Canada. He also twice won gold with Canada at the world junior hockey championships in 1990 and 1991.His dominance carried into the NHL, where he became a member of the Philadelphia Flyers. He ended up playing 760 games over an injury-plagued NHL career with the Flyers, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars, scoring 372 goals and 865 points, and winning the Hart Trophy as MVP in 1995.Eric played on 3 Canadian teams at the Olympics winning gold and silver medals. He was also a member of Team Canada for over a decade during his playing career.In 2006, Eric became just the third player to have his number 88 retired by the Generals.
Year Inducted: 1997
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Francis (Frank) Leonard Bathe:
Frank was born in Oshawa in 1954 where he competed at all levels of minor hockey. While with the Junior B Oshawa Crushmen he won The Most Outstanding Player Award in 1970-71. From 1972 to 1974 Frank played Junor A with the Windsor Spitfires where he was the recipient of The Most Valuable Defencemen Award. Frank's professional career began in 1974 when he signed with the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL and continued with the Philadelphia Flyers. While with the Flyers, the 1979-80 Campbell Conference Champions, Frank won The Unsung Hero Award and The Barry Ashbee Most Valuable Defenceman Award. Frank also played for the Virginia Red Wings, the Port Huron Flags and the 1978 American Hockey League Champion Maine Mariners. Frank's career spanned 224 games of professional hockey before he was forced to retire due to injuries. In 1991, Frank was named assistant coach of the Maine Mariners and since 1993 he has been assistant general manager of the Portland Pirates.
Year Inducted: 1993
Birth Date: October 25, 1902
Home Town: Toronto
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Frank, born in Toronto on October 25, 1902, is inducted as a builder for his involvement in amateur baseball and contribution to minor sports in Oshawa. Frank moved to Oshawa in December 1928 to become a member of Oshawa's General Motors Senior Baseball Club known as G.M. Men. Later he became manager of the club that won the Ontario Senior baseball championship in 1936.
Among his accomplishments he was a director of the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club in 1965, and the Central Ontario Baseball League in 1939. Frank was made an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Oshawa Branch 43, in recognition of his sponsorship and participation in youth level baseball from 1949 to 1988.
He was president of the Oshawa Curling Club from 1952 to 1953 and a member of the Oshawa Civic Auditorium Board of Management in 1967 to 1968. Frank further served as an executive member in the presentation of the Canadian Curling Championships held at the Civic Auditorium in March 1969.
Frank's name is held in gratitude by many athletes who participated under his leadership, guidance and sponsorship of sports in Oshawa. A very prominent member of the business community, he served as Mayor of Oshawa from 1946 to 1948 and as an Alderman from 1949 to 1952.
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