{"id":28472,"date":"2015-08-08T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:43:01","slug":"2015-isc-hall-of-fame-inductee-colin-abbott-a-hit-wherever-he-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28472","title":{"rendered":"2015 ISC Hall of Fame Inductee Colin Abbott a hit wherever he played"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the St. John’s Telegram<\/a>
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\nBy Robin Short<\/em>
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\nEditor’s note:<\/strong> Portugal Cove native Colin Abbott enters the International Softball Congress (ISC) Hall of Fame this weekend<\/em><\/p>\n

These days, Colin Abbott is another minor baseball coach, filling out the lineup card each weekend. Odds are the kids on his St. John\u2019s Capitals peewee team don\u2019t quite understand how good an athlete their coach was back in his heyday.<\/p>\n

Colin Abbott of Portugal Cove played for the Canada\u2019s senior men\u2019s softball team 15 times, winning five medals \u2014 including two gold \u2014 and earning MVP honours three times. Abbott is being inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame this weekend in South Bend, Ind.<\/p>\n

And just how good was Colin Abbott on the softball diamond?<\/p>\n

Well, to suggest he was one of the world\u2019s best hitters \u2014 yes, the world \u2014 is not a stretch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why, on Sunday, the Portugal Cove product will become the first Newfoundlander inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame when South Bend, Ind., more commonly known as home to Knute Rockne and the University of Notre Dame, will be Softball Central with the ISC world championships scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great honour,\u201d Abbott said Thursday. \u201cAnd to be honest, it\u2019s pretty cool that guys like Jason Hill and Stephen Mullaley and Sean Cleary and a bunch of others are doing the same thing today. It\u2019s a great honour to see them coming behind me.” <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI?don\u2019t see myself as a trail blazer or anything,\u201d?he said, \u201cbut if I had any hand in the players today getting a break (and playing at the ISC level), that\u2019s all great.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 2014 Sport Newfoundland and Labrador Hall of Famer, Abbott\u2019s career stats at the ISC level include a gaudy .337 batting average, and he\u2019s the ISC all-time leader in hits (120), runs batted in (86) and plate appearances (326). He\u2019s second in home runs (26) and doubles (24) while toiling mostly for Wisconsin-based teams.<\/p>\n

Twice Abbott\u2019s Madison Farm Tavern club won the ISC championship (1999 and 2007), and he was also part of the Green Bay All-Car Roadrunners championship run in 1994.<\/p>\n

He appeared in a total of 18 ISC championships. Click here to continue reading at the Telegram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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