Express Holding Black History Month Tribute on Sunday
February 19, 2015 - National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada)
Windsor Express News Release
(WINDSOR, ON) It's Black History Month and the Windsor Express are honouring three members of the Northstar Cultural Community Centre prior to their 2:00pm game on Sunday, February 22nd against the Mississauga Power.
The tribute will focus on women's basketball stars, Pat Harrison and Madeline Chase and multi-sport standout, Fred Thomas.
Harrison and Chase were members of the Club 240 Women's Basketball Team, who are recieved team recognition in 2014 from the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame.
The team played through the mid-1960's through the early 1970's and won nine provincial and six Eastern Canada championships.
Thomas participated in basketball, baseball, football and track and field in high school and would later score 2,059 points in his four years at Assumption College, third on the NCAA basketball all-time list.
In his professional career, Thomas played for the Harlem Globetrotters, the Canadian Football League's, Toronto Argonauts and a farm club of Major League Baseball's, Cleveland Indians, where he became the first black man to play in the Eastern Baseball League.
Thomas has been inducted into the Afro-American Hall of the Fame (1994), the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (1995) and the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (1981) and is the individual whom Fred Thomas Park was named after.
Fred Thomas will be represented by his brother, George Thomas and his son, Greg Thomas.
Fundraiser tickets are available at the Northstar Cultural Community Centre office.
Regular tickets can be found at the TekSavvy box office inside the WFCU Centre, online at www.wfcu-centre.com or www.windsorexpress.ca.
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