Ray McClure

INDUCTED INTO THE BROCKVILLE & AREA HALL OF FAME JUNE 12, 1998.

RAY STARTED COACHING BOTH MEN’S AND LADIES SOFTBALL TEAMS IN THE MID 40’S. HE COACHED THE LADIES PHILLIPS LOCAL 510 TO CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS. HE WAS COACH OF THE MENS’ TEAMS THAT WON BOTH THE CITY AND EOASA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ’47 AND ’48. IN 1950, RAY STARTED HIS 17-YEAR ASOCIATION WITH THE BROCKVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION COACHING THE LADIES P.A.A. ALL STARS WINNING SEVERAL CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THE IOASA JUVENILE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1951.
FROM ’58 -’72 HE COACHED THE WIL-MIN-NELLS IN THE LEEDS AND GRENVILLE LADIES SOFTBALL LEAGUE, WINNING SEVERAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.

RAY WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BROCKVILLE GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION IN 1969, PRESIDENT IN 1971 AND THEN UMPIRE AND UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF FOR MANY YEARS. RAY HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN FUNDRAISING FOR THE ORIGINAL BROCKVILLE MEMORIAL CENTRE, THE BROCKVILLE BRAVES IN THEIR EARLY YEARS, AND THE P.A.A.