have won the league (playoff) championship series 14 times in the years 1925, 1936, 1937 (as the London Silverwoods), 1943 (as the London Army Team), 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1956, 1969 (as the London Pontiacs), 1975, 2021 and 2022 (as the London Majors). In 1943, 1944 and 1947, the London Majors also won the Ontario Baseball Association Sr. 'A' championships (see team photo below on an external link), the Canadian Baseball Congress Championships in 1943, 1944, 1947 and 1948 and the Can-Am North American Championship in 1948. According to the IBL record books, the Majors won the pennant race (atop the regular season standings) in 1946, 1947, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1988, 2008, 2016 and 2021 (13 in total). Traditionally, one of the high points in the season of the London Majors is a game with the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 1 (Canada Day), which is usually followed by fireworks over the adjacent forks of the Thames River. In 1950, pitcher Ted Alexander joined the Majors. Previously, Alexander had been a star pitcher for a total of 14 seasons with the Homestead Grays and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League. Alexander left the Majors part way through the 1951 season, during which the Majors won the Intercounty title with star pitchers, Stan and Bill Slack. The Majors also won the Intercounty title in 1956 with former New York Yankee/ Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder Frank Colman as the owner-manager of the team. 1975 London Majors Arden Eddie, who has played at first base, second base and the outfield during his 34-year playing career for the London Majors in the Intercounty League, was a key member of the 1975 Majors when they won the Intercounty title, the last year that the team has won the league championship. In 2007, Arden Eddie was inducted into the London Sports Hall of Fame. Other players on the 1975 Majors ballclub were: former Major League Baseball, left-handed pitcher Mike Kilkenny, a league all-star and 1975 Intercounty MVP; shortstop Dave Byers; all-star second-and-third baseman Barry Boughner; 1975 batting champion Larry Haggitt (.412); manager Roy McKay; coach John Ambrose; long-time coach-trainer Norm Aldridge (Aldridge has a City-owned baseball diamond named after him in northeast London called Norm Aldridge Field); Larry Wilson; pitcher Phil Schmidt; pitcher Rick Lindquist; Barry Fuller; Mike Fess; catcher Wayne (Dog) Fenlon; Brian Bell; captain Dave (Whitey) Lapthorne;