Featured Inductee: Francis Noble McCallum - Baseball

Year Inducted: 1993
Birth Date: October 25, 1902
Home Town: Toronto

More about Francis Noble McCallum:
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.