It all comes back to a humble baseball park wedged tight between Hillside and Cook streets
Former radio and TV sports anchor and commentator John McKeachie has covered it all, from the Summer and Winter Olympics, to the B.C. Lions and the NHL.
Also at the park this afternoon will be former New York Yankees prospect George Hemming. McKeachie and Hemming were nine-year-olds when they stepped to the plate on the first day the diamond opened in 1953. McKeachie remembers like it was yesterday.“I still remember putting on my Oddfellows jersey for the first time at my house before the first game at the park and thinking it was a biggest deal happening.
“If they had Tommy John surgery back then, George would have made it to the major leagues,” said McKeachie, a Class of 2012 Victoria Sports Hall of Fame inductee in the media category. The little park never got close again as Esquimalt-Vic West in 1974 and Gordon Head in 1999, led by future major-leaguer Michael Saunders, are the only teams from the Island to win nationals and play in the Little League World Series.
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