Black Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame
Fields was inducted posthumously into the Black Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame along with 19 other Black athletes in August 2006 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for his playing days with the Brantford Red Sox of the Intercounty Baseball League in 1951.
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