Year Inducted: 1998
Home Town: Oshawa
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One of the most successful seasons in Oshawa's softball history came in 1948 when the Pedlar's Softball Team captured the Ontario Intermediate A championship from Sault Ste. Marie at Oshawa's Alexandra Park. This indeed was a fitting result to celebrate Oshawa's 25th anniversary in O.A.S.A. ranks. In 1949 the name Oshawa again appears in the O.A.S.A. list of champions when the Pedlar's Team successfully defended the All-Ontario Intermediate against North Bay, where all three games were played. The Pedlar's Team of 1948, 1949 brought great honour to the City and is worthy of induction into the Sports Hall of Fame.
Intermediate A Softball Team - 1948John G. Geikie, J.A. Morphy, T. Lodge, D. Smith, J. Janetos, M.E. Meulemeester, J.S. McConkey, J. George, P. Brownson, N. Northey, T.J. Rospond, N.W. Magee, E.J. Logeman, F.J. Foley, S.J. Stark, J.W. Wetherup, L.H. McIntyre, R.W. Tyson, W. Yorkevich, W.H. Cooper, F.R. Young, W.L. Keeler, A.A. Turner and J. Richards (Mascot)
Intermediate A Softball Team - 1949T.J. Rospond, A.A. Turner, W.F. Barker, W.H. Cooper (Captain), R. Nelson, W. Yourkevich, E.J. Logeman, W.L. Keeler, J.W. Wetherup, J.G. Geikie, J.A. Morphy, N.W. Magee, S.J. Stark, S. Waylett, J.S. McConkey, F.R. Young (Coach), F.J. Foley, M.E. Meulemeester, J. Richards, T. Lodge, D. Smith, P. Brownson, J. George
Year Inducted: 2019
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Peter Gordon:
Peter Gordon was a multi-sport athlete while at O’Neill Collegiate who went on to a distinguished basketball career at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). A native of Jamaica, Peter moved to Canada in 1974 and dominated the Oshawa sports scene during his high school days from 1981 to 1986. Although it would ultimately be in basketball where he would settle, Peter was also a tremendous soccer player, leading his Oshawa Turul under-15 club team to an Ontario Cup provincial title in 1981 and O’Neill to the 1984 Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championship. In basketball, he led O’Neill to back-to-back Lake Ontario Secondary School Athletics (LOSSA) and Central Ontario Secondary Schools Association (COSSA) championships in 1984 and 1985. During his high school career, Peter led teams to nine LOSSA titles in soccer, basketball and volleyball, as well as seven COSSA championships and won eight team MVP awards. Although considered by some to be an even better soccer player, Peter focused on basketball at UPEI, where he would lead the Panthers to back-to-back Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championships in 1988 and 1989 and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2001. He was a three-time recipient of the AUS most valuable player award in basketball and a three-time winner of UPEI’s outstanding male athlete of the year. He was named the AUS rookie of the year for men’s basketball in 1987, an AUS conference all-star in all five years and an All-Canadian in four seasons while finishing his university career ranked eighth all-time in AUS scoring with 1,639 points. Peter was voted as one of the top 100 Canadian university basketball players of all-time. In October of 2018, UPEI retired his number 34 and a scholarship has been developed in his name. After his playing career, Peter continued to be involved with the game as a coach. He was an assistant coach with the O’Neill Collegiate Senior Boys AAA team that won an OFSAA championship in 1992 and the Durham College men’s basketball team who won the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) national championship in 1997. Peter moved on to be head coach of the Lords from 2000-2008.
Year Inducted: 1989
Birth Date: January 03, 1947
Home Town: South Porcupine
More about Peter Michael (The Hook) Landers:
In 1967, Peter pitched Scugog Cleaners to the OASA Junior Championship. The next 10 years saw Peter with Oshawa Tony's Senior A, who won 3 Ontario Championships, 2 Canadian Championships, 1 World Championship, and a Silver Medal at the 1969 Canadian Summer Games. In 1979, while pitching for Oshawa MCL Senior A, Peter recorded strikeout number 1,000 in the Ontario Fastball League.
Peter had over 75 no-hitters during his career. In 1968, he struck out 43 batters in pitching 23 innings in the Southern Ontario Finals. He pitched 2 no-hitters (one a perfect game) in the 1969 Canadian Summer Games. He pitched a no-hitter and won 5 games in the 1977 World Championships.
Year Inducted: 1987
Home Town: Armstrong
More about Peter Poole:
Peter Poole, the guiding force behind Windfields Farm, Oshawa for 36 years, saw Kentucky Derby winner Northern Dancer develop. Peter, born in Armstrong, B.C. in 1920, began his horse racing career when he joined Windfields Farm in 1950 as a foreman. In 1968 he became general manager until his retirement in 1986. Windfields, under Peter's leadership, bred more stakes winners than any other breeder in the world.
The farm boasted of three English Derby winners, three Irish Derby winners and twenty Queen's Plate winners. The golden jewel of Peter's career was the great Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Northern Dancer whose birth Peter supervised and attended. Northern Dancer, after his racing career ended, went on to sire many great horses including Nijinsky, winner of the English triple crown. He became the greatest sire the world had ever known. Peter's own long and very successful career came to an end with his retirement in 1986.
Year Inducted: 2013
Birth Date: June 29, 1963
Home Town: Poland
More about Peter Sidorkiewicz:
Peter Sidorkiewicz, an Oshawa Minor Hockey graduate, went on to star for the Oshawa Generals and play in the National Hockey League.Born in Poland on June 29, 1963, Peter\'s family moved to Oshawa when he was a youngster. He starred in the Oshawa Minor Hockey Association, winning an Ontario Bantam Championship in 1977.He played with the Oshawa Generals from 1980 to 1984, leading the team to an Ontario Hockey League championship and Memorial Cup appearance in 1983.After being taken in the fifth round of the 1981 NHL draft by Washington, he made his NHL debut with the Hartford Whalers in 1988 and was named to the NHL\'s All-Rookie team in 1989. After four more seasons with Hartford, Peter moved to the expansion Ottawa Senators in 1992, and was the team\'s representative in the NHL All-Star game. He then moved on to the New Jersey Devils organization and retired in 1998. He finished his career playing in 246 regular season games.
Year Inducted: 2016
Birth Date: February 17, 1944
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Peter Stephenson:
Peter Stephenson was born in Oshawa on February 17, 1944. Although a strong player, Peter also had a major impact on the sport as a builder, where he has served as a coach, official and administrator, he was a coach at the 1974 Canada Winter Games, received a certificate of recognition for achievement in amateur sport in Ontario in 1986, won the Ontario Badminton President Award in 1987, 2004 and 2008, earned a Celebration 88 certificate of merit from the Canadian government in 1988, became a Badminton Canada life member in 2003 and won the Syl Apps special achievement award in 2007.He is a certified Level 2 coach, has been a national referee for more than 15 years, a national umpire for over 30 years and has officiated at all levels, including provincial and national championships and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. Peter started and coached a badminton program at Durham College and has served as president at the Oshawa YMCA, district president for the Ontario Central Region, and a director for the Ontario Badminton Association.Also prominent in the Boy Scouts of Canada for more than 35 years, Peter was recognized with the Silver Acorn Award, one of the highest awards for volunteering honors, in 1999.
Year Inducted: 2022
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Randy Richards:
Oshawa resident Randy Richards, who excelled in ski jumping, is both an athlete and a coach.Richards began ski jumping at the Oshawa Ski Club at the age of four and, as his skills developed, progressed to inter-club competitions in Ottawa, Kitchener and Thunder Bay. He was a member of the Canadian national team from 1970 to 1980 and represented Canada at several Continental and World Cup events, including the Junior World Championships in Quebec City in 1979. In 1981, while training for a World Cup event in Thunder Bay, Randy suffered a serious ankle injury that ended his jumping career.Rather than give up on jumping altogether, Randy switched his focus to coaching and returned to the Oshawa Ski Club following six months of rehabilitation. He became the Jr. National Development Coach and helped several team members reach the national level. In 1985, Randy became the first native-born Canadian to coach on the National Ski Jumping team and led the team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.Although ski jumping was his first love, Randy was an active lacrosse player and played two seasons with the Oshawa Green Gaels junior team. He has also coach minor lacrosse in Clarington guiding the Clarington Midget Gaels to a provincial championship title in 2006.
Year Inducted: 2005
More about Rick Middleton:
Rick played youth hockey for Wexford and the Toronto Young Nationals, before lacing them up for two seasons with the Oshawa Generals from 1971-73. In the 1972-73 season, Rick scored a league high 67 goals, and received the Red Tilson Award as the league's most valuable player.
In June 1973, Rick was a first round National Hockey League draft pick, selected fourteenth overall by the New York Rangers. After three years in the Ranger's organization, he was traded to the Boston Bruins, where he played twelve seasons before retiring in 1988. Rick amassed 988 points in his fourteen year NHL career, scoring 448 goals and 540 assists. He had five consecutive 40 goals seasons from 1979-84, scored 51 goals in 1982, and had two 100 plus point seasons. In the 1981-82 season, he was awarded the League's Lady Byng Trophy, and also had the honor of being named Co-Captain of the Bruins from 1985-88 with Ray Bourque. Although Rick played in three Stanley Cup Finals, three All-Star Games, and two Canada Cup Tournaments, he said his biggest thrill in hockey came in the 2002 Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City, where, as Head Coach, he led the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team to a Gold Medal. Rick's long and illustrious career warrants his place in the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2018
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Rob Pearson:
Oshawa-born Rob Pearson, whose outstanding career in hockey has included playing for the Oshawa Generals and Toronto Maple Leafs. A multi-sport athlete growing up in Oshawa, Rob excelled most of all in hockey, winning numerous tournament MVP awards from peewee to bantam and helping lead the Oshawa Kiwanis midget team to the Air Canada Cup in Thunder Bay.A first-round draft pick of the Belleville Bulls in 1988, Pearson was traded to the Generals in 1990 and racked up an incredible 57 goals and 109 points in just 41 games, winning the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the top scoring right winger in the OHL with 118 points all together. He was named to the OHL first all-star team in 1991 and helped lead the Generals to the league final with 16 goals and 33 points in 16 playoff games. Drafted in the first round, 12th overall, by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1989, Pearson played 269 games in the NHL with the Leafs, Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues, scoring 56 goals and adding 54 assists for 100 points. He also played in the AHL and IHL before finishing his career in Europe with the Frankfurt Lions.Since retiring as a player, Rob has remained active with the Leafs alumni and as a coach: in minor hockey with Clarington and Whitby; as an assistant coach with the UOIT Ridgebacks for a year; and currently as head coach of the Whitby Fury. He has also been active in organizing community service initiatives and skill-building clinics in Durham Region.For his many contributions to the sport, Rob Pearson is a superb addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 1986
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Robert A. Attersley:
Beginning in 1950, Oshawa-born Bob Attersley played three seasons with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A circuit. In the 1952-53 season, he captured the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy as the league's outstanding player. But his greatest victory was still five years away. Playing for the Whitby Dunlops at the 1958 World Hockey Championships in Osio, Attersley and the Canadian crew brought home the gold medal. Attersley spent seven seasons with the Dunlops, who participated at the Senior A and Senior B levels. In his final season with the Dunlops, 1960, Attersley was asked to join a Kitchener outfit which was to represent Canada at the 1960 Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, United States. The team won a silver medal. A resident of Oshawa from his birth in 1933 until 1958, Attersley later moved to Whitby and became a prominent member of the business community, and later served as Mayor.
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