Cap tip Dennis Dosman
KITCHENER — The Kitchener Hallman Twins are back in business.
Less than eight months after pulling the financial plug on Canada’s longest-continuously operated senior men’s fastball team, local entrepreneur and philanthropist Jim Hallman has resurrected the team in hopes of winning a third consecutive national championship. Hallman, along with player/coach Dave Bailey and skipper Doug Eidt, decided to go for the three-peat at last month’s Legends of Fastball Classic in Kitchener when it become apparent many of the players from the previous championship teams would make themselves available.
The Twins — now in their 43rd year of operation — will compete this weekend in New Dundee at the Ontario Amateur Softball Association senior elimination championship and then gather again for the Aug. 28-Sept. 4 Canadian championship in Owen Sound. The OASA Great Lakes intermediate championship will also be played this weekend at Doug Fischer Memorial Park.
“I thought I was ready to sit back and watch from the sidelines until I actually sat back and watched from the sidelines,” laughed Hallman.
“This is probably just a one-off deal . . . we have a shot to three-peat and that would be really cool.”
Bailey, who has come out of retirement to play, and Eidt have assembled a roster they hope will be one of the teams to beat in Owen Sound. Click here for the complete story.