Top ump honored.Windspeaker Contributor FREDERICTON More than three decades of dedication to softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' have paid off for Wayne Brown Wayne Brown may refer to:
Softball Canada's current umpire-in-chief was inducted into the Fredericton Sports Wall of Fame during a ceremony on May 9. Brown lives on the St. Mary's First Nation St. Mary's First Nation is one of six Maliseet Nations on the Saint John River in Canada. Roughly half the members of the St. Mary's First Nation reside on the St. Mary's reserve, which is a very modest 125 hectares or 310 acres. St. , which surrounds Fredericton, New Brunswick's capital city. Brown is the economic development director for the St. Mary's First Nation. For several years he's also been its unofficial co-ordinator for most sports, social and cultural activities. This explains why more than 100 people (about one-third of St. Mary's population) attended the induction ceremonies. Over the years, Brown has served as a softball coach, umpire and administrator. He's been involved with 24 national tournaments, for 15 of which he was the umpire-in-chief. Brown has been Softball Canada's umpire-in-chief since 1994. He also became the International Softball Federation's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. umpire-in-chief in 1995. But Brown isn't keen on having the spotlight focused just on him. "Let me be clear on one thing right now," Brown said. "You don't find success by yourself... It takes a lot of hard work by a great national staff to accomplish what we have accomplished. The umpiring development program we have here in Canada is the best in the world, even better than the Americans." Brown has also participated at various Native athletic events. He was one of the coaches for the St. Mary's softball squad when it participated at the North American Indigenous Games The North American Indigenous Games is a multi-sport event involving indigenous North American athletes staged intermittently since 1990. The Games are managed by the Native American Sports Council, Inc., a non-profit member organization of the United States Olympic Committee. in Prince Albert Prince Albert, city (1991 pop. 34,181), central Sask., Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River. Prince Albert is a commercial and distribution center for a lumbering, gold- and uranium-mining, and mixed-farming area. There are wood-products and meatpacking industries. , Sask. in 1993. That team ended up winning the bronze medal. Two years later, Brown led the St. Mary's club to the gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize at the North American Indigenous Games in Minnesota. "We certainly didn't have the best team there in terms of talent," Brown recalled. "We are a community of under 300, but we managed to win against teams representing communities of 30,000. In this community we do things together as a team, and that has led to success." And for Brown, his successes have earned him some well-deserved recognition. |
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