David Nychyk
BIRTHPLACE Winnipeg, MB
BORN July 1, 1968
INDUCTED 2017
David Nychyk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on July 1, 1968. Nychyk was involved in baseball for over 35 years as a player and coach. He played on six provincial champion teams from midget to senior AAA, and he won the Western Canadian Senior Championships two times, once with the Teulon Cardinals in 1990, and once with the Elmwood Giants in 2002. Nychyk was named tournament MVP at both the 1985 Midget Provincial Championship and the Senior AAA 1990 Western Canadian Championship. In 1992, he founded the Legion 141 Senior Baseball Club, and in 1995 he was a part of the Manitoba all-stars team that defeated the Canadian national team. Around this time, Nychyk also became vice-president of the North Winnipeg Baseball Association, a post he held for eight years. He was the recipient of the annual Manitoba Junior Baseball League’s Brain Domes award in 1995 for his dedication to baseball in Manitoba, and in 2013 he was named Baseball Manitoba’s High Performance Coach of the Year. Later in his career, Nychyk coached the Winnipeg Junior Goldeyes Baseball Academy, supported by Home Run Sports. He also had an outstanding career playing for and coaching US college teams.
“Good evening all, tonight it is appropriate that one top beat off hitters to ever play a game in Manitoba, I want to invite up David Nychyk to come forward please. It is my honor to tell you about David, id like to turn to page 4 in your program and read some of the fantastic details about his playing career and his coaching career. Whatever level he was at, whether that was a player or a coach he excelled, when I sat down to eat today Bob Picken came up to me and said he had just finished interviewing David, for the Hall of Fame. I asked how it went and you know he kinda said it in a how I could describe I think it is a perfect description of David, he said the interview was Bubbly. Secondly, if you look at the picture of David in the program and its a picture that is kind of giving you a shrine in the Hall of Fame, you might say Dave wash your face. But you know what, I think thats an appropriate picture for David to be remembered by. He was always a hussler, a scrambler, if he was on your team you loved the guy, if he was on the other team not so much. After his tremendous playing career he was on just so many champion games that there are too many to pick and the other thing too is that if his team wasn’t there somebody would always pick him up to go and play with them. Since his retirement from playing he has taken a real leadership role in the development of baseball in this province. Through companies, the Home Run sports academy and the college development program, he has given hundreds of kids the opportunity to develop their skills, get better as players, travel down to the states, play against tough competitions, on great facilities, to make contact with colleges down in the states, they may get the opportunity to then go played down somewhere in the states as David did. And he is providing that opportunity too, a lot of young baseball players that 10 or 15 years ago never had that opportunity, so to finish it off I just would like to welcome David Nychyk into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame.”
