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A local baseball veteran will be inducted in the Colchester County Sports Hall of Fame tonight.
Keith Bridgeo will go in with the 1973 Truro Bearcats, a team that went to the Maritime championship.
He was pitcher in those days, and played in the Canada Games.
He continues to be involved in baseball, last season managing the Yarmouth Mosquito Gateways minor baseball team.
Bridgeo says he’s a strong believer in the integrity of baseball.
“Every game should be played between the lines. Playing on Truro, Yarmouth and Hantsport and winning Nova Scotia and Maritime titles, that’s the kind of players I played with. I’m looking forward to meeting up with them again. I’ll meet up with three of my 1969 Canada Games teammates who were also on the Bearcats.”
The former pitcher says he’ll have a few people on his mind tonight.
“My parents, and I think about my first two two little league coaches in Yarmouth, Tookie Muise and Jim Comeau. My idol Stu Erickson was here for six years, and gave me the fundamentals I needed to play 16 years of senior baseball.”
He says he’s pleased to go in with his teammate from Hantsport, Carson Ellis who was also a catcher at the Canada Games.
