Source: http://ift.tt/1xGgywO --- Monday, November 27, 2017
Howie Birnie and Jim Lutton -- two of the umpiring crew at the Pearson Cup game between the Montreal Expos and the Blue Jays -- were both inducted into the Baseball Ontario Hall of Fame. By Bob Elliott Canadian Baseball Network Jim Lutton and I first met at the Cricket Field in Kingston, It was a May afternoon in 1967. That is 50 years or 51 ball seasons ago. Lutton was running the Oshawa Legionnaires, a junior team, which lost that day 4-2 to the Kingston Lakeview Indians, a team coached by my father. Art Leeman picked up the win, while Bill Ryan was tagged with the loss. Lutton and I have not seen each season or every year since way back when Lester Pearson was our Prime Minister and not an airport where you go to pick up lost bags. Yet, we have seen each other often enough at games and Ontario Baseball meetings as well as being in contact over the years. We’ve seen him often enough to write when Lutton won an honour that the two of us met ... “while working on putting up the walls of Oshawa’s Kinsmen Stadium.” You could not imagine the string or irate e-mails I received from Lutton supporters, Lutton-maniacs and former players. It was as if I had insulted the Queen, Don Cherry or the loyal family pet. You see readers did not know Lutton and I were pals. They thought an old goat like me was making fun of my long-time friend. Wrong. My father’s team won the senior title in 1967 beating Orillia Majors and again beat Orillia in ...
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