Ian Lamplugh |
Ian started umpiring at Lambrick Park, becoming a member of the B.C. Baseball Umpires Association (BCBUA) and Baseball Canada nationally certified. In 1988, Ian first attended the Joe Brinkman Umpire School in Florida but was unable to get a US work visa. He later won the Ken Van Hatten Memorial Scholarship for Umpires, was top graduate at Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring, and again attended the Umpire Development Program in Florida and was a top six graduate.
Ian worked the Northwest, California, Texas, Arizona Instructional and Pacific Coast Leagues, plus Hawaii, Arizona and Dominican seasonal leagues. In 1998-99, he became the first Canadian in many years to work the Majors as part of the National Baseball League’s umpire staff.
Leaving the Majors in 2002, Ian spent a year as Supervisor and also umpired the professional Canadian and Chinese Leagues before retiring in 2007.
In 2002, BC Minor Baseball and BCBUA founded the Ian Lamplugh Award to recognize the top umpire prospect in BC and, in 2010, Ian was the inaugural inductee into BCBUA’s Hall of Fame.
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Denny Boyd |
Denny Boyd was delivered to the world in 1930 in Anyox, BC. shortly after his mother was delivered to the hospital in a family friend’s garbage truck. Twenty-one years later, he was writing sports for the Victoria Times.
Denny loved telling that story among what seemed a million others.
Stories were what he lived for, and no one had a better eye or ear for finding them and putting them into words. During his years at the Times, he covered it all: junior hockey, high school sports, and all the local leagues.
His work at the Times led to a career at the Vancouver Sun from 1957-72 and again from 1977 through 1999, first in sports, then in an entertainment/saloon column that became a “must-read” across the province.
With four books, a five-year stint as radio commentator, the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 and the Order of BC in 2005, you have a life lived to the hilt by a man who lived for words, and made them sing.
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