WATCH ABOVE: Former MLB umpire and CFL football pro Jim McKean sits down with Camille Ross to talk about his Lifetime Achievement Award.
MONTREAL – NDG Minor Baseball is honouring former CFL player and MLB umpire Jim McKean with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The event takes place on NDG Baseball’s Championship Day Saturday, Aug. 15 at Loyola Park.
“It’s very exciting because this is where I started my career. I was a little league guy, 10 to 11-years-old, playing in minor league baseball,” said McKean.
“All my relatives, all my friends and a lot of people that I haven’t seen for years will be there, so I’m looking forward to that.”
The award recipient said he’ll even get back to his roots and umpire a few innings of a U-12 Little League game in the NDG Baseball Major Championship.
Jim McKean played numerous sports throughout the years and was a star athlete at Monkland High School.
Upon graduation, McKean declined athletic scholarships from numerous U.S. colleges and instead opted to play for the Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League.
McKean then trained as an umpire, working in the minor leagues and making it to the majors in 1973 as an American League umpire.
He retired in 2001.
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