Stratford Nationals

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The Stratford Nationals are an amateur men's baseball team operating out of Stratford, Ontario, playing at National Stadium at the corner of Romeo and Norfolk streets. The team was moved from St. Thomas, Ontario, to Stratford in 2004 after several years of dwindling fan support in St. Thomas.

The team changed it's name from the Storm to the Nationals for the 2006 season, in view of the Canadian National Railway's historical importance to Stratford.

The Nationals have struggled in their past two seasons, winning only one game out of 34 in 2005.

For many years, however, Stratford was a premier franchise in the Intercounty League and also one of its founding members in 1919 (along with Galt, Guelph and Kitchener), operating at various times as the Stratford Nationals, the Stratford Kraven Knits and Stratford Hillers, winning the Intercounty League title in 1934, 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1946 as the Nationals, in 1974 as the Kraven Knits and in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1992 as the Hillers.

The Stratford Nationals also won the Ontario Baseball Association title in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934.