[4] His statistics for the season are incomplete, although a newspaper box score shows he allowed eight runs in 1+1⁄3 innings of relief during a game in May.

[5] In early June 1958, Stead joined the Brantford Red Sox, a team in the amateur Intercounty Baseball League of Southern Ontario.

[1] Stead also played for the Canada national baseball team, appearing in the 1967 Pan American Games, contested in Winnipeg.

He was the starting pitcher of the team's opening game, a 3–1 loss to Mexico; Stead struck out 10 batters in seven innings while allowing four hits.

[14] However, officials then ruled that four players on the Canadian team, including Stead, were ineligible to compete because they had previously played professional baseball.

[14] The win over Puerto Rico was forfeited, and the Canadian team continued in the tournament without the ineligible players,[14] ultimately finishing last in the five-team competition.