As a boy my life revolved around playing baseball. I hung up my glove at 39 as the third baseman and manager of a men’s league team but later worked as an instructor for the Toronto Blue Jays at their summer camp for teenagers. After earning an Honors degree in History I taught for several years. I was promoted to principal and elected Chair of the 1,100 member Toronto School Administrators’ Association and later named to the Executive of the Ontario Principals’ Council. I retired a few years ago and read voraciously about the history of baseball. Along with two former teammates I started a blog called lateinningsblogspot.com to which I am the main contributor on the subject of baseball history. While interested by the biographies of a lot of players, I never not found anyone who had a more fascinating and even bizarre life and career than Rube Waddell. Not even Babe Ruth. Rube wrestled alligators and bears, did handsprings and cartwheels off the mound, carried a loaded gun in his pocket, missed games because he was home playing with his puppy, sent his whole team off the field and struck out the side on nine pitches, trained geese to skip rope, still holds the AL season record for strikeouts by a left-hander, saved at least thirteen people's lives, and did many other remarkable things. They're all in my novel "King of the Hall of Flakes".

Top Geography student in London, Ontario
Nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Master's Degree in Educational Administration