2024 Toronto Playgrounds Baseball Association Awards for Excellence
HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS GOES OUT TO OUR 2024 TPBA AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR THEIR LOVE OF THE GAME: LAUREN JOPLING AND ADAM WOOD HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK WITH THE PARTICIPANT OF THE YEAR AWARD. MEANWHILE, CHRIS BIALKOWSKI AND TOM GINGRAS SLIDE HOME WITH THE VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD. WITH A DASH OF RELISH AND A DOLLOP OF MUSTARD, MIKE ZIMMERMAN ENTERS THE TPBA’s HALL OF FAME AS ITS FOURTH INDUCTEE. AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, STEVE SMITH AND SADIE WHITFIELD-SMITH ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE TPBA HOUSE LEAGUE HEROES AWARD FOR THEIR PASSIONATE WORK IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY BASEBALL AT CHRISTIE PITS.
2024 TORONTO PLAYGROUNDS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION PARTICIPANTS OF THE YEAR:
LAUREN JOPLING AND ADAM WOOD
Co-recipient of the 2024 TPBA Participant of the Year Award Lauren Jopling [left] and Pauline Wood (mother of the co-recipient of the TPBA participant award, Adam Wood) accepting the the distinguished award on behalf of her son during the 2024 TPBA AGM on April 2 at Clinton Street Junior Public School.
Unable to attend the TPBA AGM in person due to his postsecondary commitments, Adam Wood thanks the TPBA community for naming him as a co-recipient of the 2024 TPBA Participant of the Year Award during a videotaped segment at the AGM.
2024 TORONTO PLAYGROUNDS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS OF THE YEAR:
CHRIS BIALKOWSKI AND TOM GINGRAS
2024 TPBA Volunteers of the Year: Chris Bialkowski [left] and Tom Gingras.
2024 TORONTO PLAYGROUNDS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE:
MIKE ZIMMERMAN (a.k.a. ‘Umpire Mike’)
Mike Zimmerman (middle), flanked by Paul Bagnell (left) and Steve Smith (right), gives the thumbs up during the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball Club Forum and Reception on May 7, 2016.
TORONTO PLAYGROUNDS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION HOUSE LEAGUE HEROES:
STEVE SMITH AND SADIE WHITFIELD-SMITH
Toronto Playgrounds Baseball Association House League Heroes: (left to right) Steve Smith and Sadie Whitfield-Smith
After receiving a commemorative TPBA House League Heroes hoody, Sadie Whitfield-Smith receives a congratulatory hug from TPBA President Reagan Maude.
After accepting a commemorative TPBA House League Heroes hoody [left], Steve Smith receives a congratulatory hug from TPBA President Reagan Maude.
Steve & Sadie
