{"id":15505,"date":"2011-11-09T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15505"},"modified":"2011-11-09T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:24:26","slug":"macumber-doucette-to-join-canada%e2%80%99s-best-in-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15505","title":{"rendered":"Macumber, Doucette to join Canada\u2019s best in hall of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15506\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trurodaily.com\/Sports\/2011-11-09\/article-2800850\/From-ball-to-the-hall\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/truro.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"truro\" width=\"271\" height=\"75\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15506\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read the complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>TRURO \u2013 Tim Macumber was one of the top softball players in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Doucette was one of the men who helped get him there.<br \/>\nFitting then, the two will go into the Softball Canada Hall of Fame together Saturday during an induction ceremony in Halifax.<br \/>\n\u201cTom was probably the most influential coach I\u2019ve had the pleasure of playing under,\u201d said Macumber, a 41-year-old Valley resident.<br \/>\nMacumber will be joined by former teammate Todd King, of Halifax, who also played for Doucette. Builders Bill Barron, of St. John\u2019s, NL., and Fredericton\u2019s Bob Stanton will also be inducted into the hall.<\/p>\n<p>Macumber, Doucette and King represented Nova Scotia at the 1989 Canada Games and were fixtures with the Halifax Junior Blues for the next several seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really special to be going in with those two,\u201d Macumber said.<br \/>\nThe native of Newport goes into the hall with an impressive resume that includes an ISC senior men\u2019s world championship in 2010 with the Jarvis Travellers. After finally winning the event on his 17th try, the first baseman and pitcher decided to hang up his cleats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a hard tournament to win,\u201d Macumber said. \u201cI\u2019ve been there with heavily favoured teams and never came close so it was a tough one to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macumber, who started playing at age five, also won gold at the Pan American Games in 2003. He helped the St. Thomas Storm to a Canadian senior men\u2019s championship in 2006 and won a national junior title with the Lloydminster Liners in 1991. He was a three-time all-world and four time all-Canadian player.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\"> \u201cI had the passion to play when I was really young and I just wanted to be the best player I could possibly be,\u201d Macumber said.  <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trurodaily.com\/Sports\/2011-11-09\/article-2800850\/From-ball-to-the-hall\/1\">Click to continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRURO \u2013 Tim Macumber was one of the top softball players in the country. Tom Doucette was one of the men who helped get him there. Fitting then, the two will go into the Softball Canada Hall of Fame together Saturday during an induction ceremony in Halifax. \u201cTom was probably the most influential coach I\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-people","9":"category-players","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}