Giants Imps Baseball Club

OUR HISTORY

Our history starts more than a hundred years ago, with the formation of The Crown Mines Giants in the early 1900’s.

In order to further develop and grow the game of baseball, a junior club was created and so Imps Junior Baseball began. The founding member of this junior section was Eddie Birkett-Sharp.

It was then that Imps moved to Rhodes Park in Kensington where it remained for 26 years.

In 1988 Pat McKinon and Eddie Birkett-Sharp moved the Imps Junior Club, combined with Bedfordview Country Club’s Junior division, to JP Bezuidenhout Park, where the Giants Imps Baseball Club can be found today.

One year later the Giants Imps Senior club moved to join its juniors – forming one club, known today as the Giants Imps Baseball Club.

Pat Mckinon then took over as the Imps Chairman, a position he held for 10 years.

In over 50 years of junior baseball the club has produced numerous provincial and National players.