1978 Intermediate D Champions

In 1978 Pierre Elliot Trudeau was Prime Minister

Members of Jim Jones' People's Temple commit mass suicide in Guyana

Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope in centuries

Ted Bundy is captured in Florida

The first computer bulletin board system is created

Garfield debuts in newspapers

Ashton Kutcher, Kobe Bryant, Usher, Clay Aiken, and Nelly Furtado are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl XII

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Saturday Night Fever and Grease are the top grossing films

"Night Fever" by the Bee Gees spends the most time at the top of the US charts

Diff'rent Strokes and Mork & Mindy premiere

Oh and I won my first baseball/softball championship. I love this picture, you can just barely see the stubby beer bottles that the guys in front are holding. Everyone including myself are either wearing jeans or shorts. This stuff is great. Jeff Bell, the one with the blue and white striped shirt, once told me a story about my father in '78 who isn't pictured. The Town teams always hated to play against the Murray Harbour team because there was no uniforms everyone was drinking, and it bugged them that there were hard to beat when they didn't try and impossible to beat if they did try. But they had the last straw with Dad, and his rubber boots.

You see come gametime the guys would leave from the wharf and go to the ballfield in a group or a pack partying the way to and from. Apparently Dad was late for one game during a tournament got off the boat arrived at the field just in time to start the game, a thirdbaseman. Well the Charlottetown team was pissed that this team from the Harbour could never organize itself well enough to come up with uniforms so when Dad got to third base in rubberboots they had enough. The week following the Tournament the league council held a meeting giving the guys short notice, hoping they wouldn't show up I guess, But Jeff and Mitch Weibel, back row blue shirt red and white stripes on sleeve, did make the meeting. There was many complaints against them and they managed to keep things pretty much they way they were, except they had to bend on one new rule change. Still known today as the Rubber Boot Rule and thanks to my Father no-one is allowed to wear rubber boots on the field during a game.
And here's Dad Mom and Myself at my wedding, no Rubber Boots here, I think... I would also like t o mention that as I got older I played Ball with all but two of these guys in either the Kings County Baseball League or the Central Kings Softball League.