1967
A car wash at the Tally Ho
A handful of young men wash cars at the Tally Ho Hotel. The first fundraiser barely clears a hundred bucks. A club is born.
From a car wash
to a ballpark.
1974–76
Coal mine to ball diamond
The club becomes a major fundraiser to turn the old mine site behind NDSS into a real ballpark.
July 31, 1976
The Mick comes to town
Mickey Mantle, Johnny Bucyk and George Reed headline the opening of Serauxmen Stadium and a Serauxmen sportsman’s dinner.
2017
Fifty years strong
The City declares Serauxmen Week and members are introduced in the B.C. Legislature.
Today
Still no red tape
Meat draws, poker, derbies, burgers and a bar crew for hire — still raising money for Nanaimo, one event at a time.
Our biggest legacy
Serauxmen Stadium
The old mine site behind NDSS was coal slag when Nanaimo Minor Baseball needed a field. The Serauxmen stepped up as a major fundraiser. On July 31, 1976, Mickey Mantle helped open the park — and today the Nanaimo NightOwls play West Coast League ball there every summer, with the Serauxmen running the 50/50 in the stands.
~2,000
Seats
745
Third Street
’76
Opening day
