Iconic baseball sign coming down

LEAMINGTON — The iconic ‘wall of champions’ sign that has occupied the front corner of the Leamington Kinsmen Baseball complex for years, is coming down to make room for parking.

The Municipality of Leamington recently notified Leamington District Minor Baseball that space was needed for skate park parking.

Kevin Gale, LDMBA President, says the town will be removing the existing sign and the plan is to re-build a similar structure later this year.

Leamington’s championship sign will be coming down soon, with plans to rebuild it near the canteen.

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“When we looked at the sign, they (the town) didn’t think it would survive a move,” said Gale. “So they asked us to come up with a new sign idea.”

The plan is to have aluminium plaques made to represent all of the past OBA champions and leave room for future champions. Gale says it’s undecided where the new sign will go up.

“We are likely putting up a new sign near the old batting cage or doing a wall of champions inside the current canteen area,” he said.