Bob Picken

• BIRTHPLACE Winnipeg, MB

• BORN September 24, 1932

• INDUCTED 2002

Bob Picken was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 24, 1932. Picken was a catcher with the Elmwood Giants for ten years, and won the Manitoba Juvenile Crown in 1951. He went on to become an umpire in Winnipeg at multiple levels, and he was the president of the Manitoba Junior Baseball League from 1962-65. Picken was chairman of the National Junior Tournament in Winnipeg in 1965, was a member of the 1967 Pan-Am Games Baseball Committee, and he broadcasted the Pan-Am Games over the Metropolitan Radio Network. In 1969, Picken also broadcasted the Winnipeg Whips games in the International League for the radio station CJOB. He went on to become the manager for the 1999 Pan-Am Games Baseball Committee and media section.